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Re: netscape plugins



On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote:

> I notice that on my system Netscape 4.51 lists certain common
> applications as unavailable. I can't imagine that I need a plugin for
> perl or tcl when these are available on my system already.  Can I direct
> Netscape to /bin/sh for all applications or do I have to specify each
> one? Since I call perl or tk or any app from a shell it seems that that
> directing everything to /bin/sh would be a simple solution.   Is there
> any problem with this?  Thanks

Security. The tcl plugin (that you can get from scriptics.com for linux)
has the concept of security policies and the like that are slightly
different from tcl that is in your main system.



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