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From: amueller@cis.ohio-state.edu (andrew j mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:09:45 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
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>(Richard M Brack) writes:
>
>The problem is, what if the administrator wants to move the global
>mime.types and mailcap files?  Then what?

	man ln. let me guess, everyone else here is a PC user,
	and Rich is even posting from AT&T, the home of UNIX   :(

>and the administrator can easily change global things, like the global mime
>and mailcap files, and default caches, etc.  This would also help new users
>so they don't have to figure out how to set that stuff up the first time
>they try the program.

	I never set up squat. The browser handled creating all the
	necessary files/directories.

	-Andy