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Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:03:50 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Mozilla mail filters - A VERSE FOR RAY

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Bob wrote:
>
> I have been able locate the mozilla "command line options"
> using Google but they should be in the help file.

These links might have something of value:

Mozilla command line options:
http://www.mversen.de/mozilla/commands.txt

Mozilla Test Documentation for Command-line Features
(I am _not_ making this up, that's what it's called)
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/cmd-line/

From a traceback of the download link given earlier by Ray:
http://weilbacher.org/Peter/mozilla.html

> I have not been able to find (in the help files or searching
> with Google) what mozilla environment variables there are,
> I do know of two but would like to know what else is available.

It's in the documentation, directly after the writeup about
email filters. :)))

> So far I have found mozilla help files less than helpful.

Frustrating, isn't it. Millions of people using various
platforms have downloaded Mozilla, yet the docs aren't robust.

You can't even *buy* documentation. (Search for "Mozilla" at
http://www.oreilly.com/)

I'll tell you something else that's frustrating. The error
exits just "die". I downloaded Ray's suggested 1.7.2 version
and installed it, made sure I had the latest Innotek DLL's,
and ran it. SYS2070. Now _why_ would a programmer load a DLL
function and not give you an error message if it failed? It
took me an hour, and probably countless hours for others as
well, to track down the problem -- all because of a lazy coder.
(I had Mozilla 1.0 open while I tried to test Mozilla 1.7.2.
It didn't like that. But "help sys2070" gives misleading info
by stating that "there is a problem loading the needed code
segment", when the problem is actually a loaded DLL that
doesn't contain a required function. The programmer *should*
have issued an error message.)

- Peter

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