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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Filemgr broken?
Message-ID: <36@ftms.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 91 23:32:52 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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It appears that I have stumbled upon a Sun "feature".  We have OW 2.0 and
when using $ENV names inside of .filetype, the file manager program will
only except it if it is $OPENWINHOME.  If you try for any other variable,
say $OPEN, it will spit out an error message about not being able to open
the icon file.

Did Sun really break the file manager so that it will only except one
environment variable name?  If so, they should get their head out of the
sand.  Because it really sucks and makes it difficult to make a portable
.filetype file.

Has anyone else run across this "feature"?  Has anyone fixed this "feature"?
Am I SOL?  Am I bitter?  You bet, I spent hours trying to figure this out,
and of course, there isn't any documentation on /etc/filetype and what is or
isn't allowed.  The DeskSet book is NOT for programmers.  Sad situation.
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