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David Nugent (davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au) wrote:
: 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)?

what netscape does is try to remap /dev/zero or something -- you can fix it
by doing a binary edit of netscape and changing the one occurrence of /dev/zero
to something like /dev/zerp (which is what I did) with no ill effects.

cheers,
jcm
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