On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Karl Misselt wrote: > Jos Vos wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > > >>To use that all time you can make an alias in ~/.bashrc > >> > >>alias acro='export LANG=en_US; acroread' > > > > > > Not a good idea *this* way, as it will *leave* your LANG set > > to "en_US" and makes your LANG dependent on whether or not > > you have started acroread during a session. > > > > You can simply modify the acroread script, /usr/local/bin/acroread > ie. mine looks like > > #!/bin/sh > # > > export LANG=en_US > ver=5.0.8 > install_dir=/usr/local/Acrobat5/Reader Or get your acroread and acroread-plugin RPMs from www.gurulabs.com, where it's all taken care of for you. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs