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From: dd@mips.com (** Planet of the Unholy Leeches from Mars **)
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Subject: Re: Filemgr broken?
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Date: 1 Apr 91 22:21:26 GMT
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In article <36@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>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.

Here's a bug report I filed last June.  Maybe someone at Sun could look it
up and see if it was ever evaluated.

 Bug Id: 1040458
 Category: tools
 Subcategory: xview
 Bug/Rfe: bug
 Synopsis: .filetype problems
 Keywords: 
 Severity: 4
 Priority: 4
 Description: 
A couple of problems in using .filetype:

1. You should be able to specify an alternate "magic" file instead of
   /etc/magic, or just put magic numbers in .filetype.

2. Filemgr has special case code to expand $OPENWINHOME, but otherwise
   you have to specify absolute paths for icons.  It should understand
   ~ notation and expand environment variables.  It would also be nice
   if it searched a specified path for unqualified names.


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David DiGiacomo, MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA  dd@mips.com