Re: Netscape & /dev/zero

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From: David Nugent
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00

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In article <4eqc7q$f2c$1@melbourne.dialix.oz.au>,
	wew@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au (William Webber) writes:
>could help explain what's going on. While Netscape is running, if I enter 
>a command at a term I get the message 'error: can't map to /dev/zero'. I 
>know that /dev/zero is used to return null bytes, but apart from this I 
>am mystified what the problem is. Any ideas?

I expect you've looked at all the standard things such as 1) does /dev/zero
exist, and is the device type correct? ie. it isn't a file and looks like:

crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys        1,   5 Jul 18  1994 /dev/zero

and 2) are the permissions correct (word readable & writeable)?

Sorry, can't help further.

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Date: 1996/02/02
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