Re: Difference between mozilla executables

Are you sure that "mozilla" is binary (use "file mozilla")? Usually (at 
least on every system I have access to) "mozilla" is an executable shell 
program (you can look at it in an editor) that sets environment 
variables and launches mozilla-bin (which is the binary executable 
("file mozilla-bin").

They're both supposed to be there and "mozilla" does "shell magic" to 
set things up on varying platforms so things will work the way they're 
supposed to.

Ben wrote:

> I'm a bit confused as to the number of mozilla executables I've found 
> on my FreeBSD system; 'which mozilla' tells me that it's in 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla (it's not a link) but the mozilla help page, 
> mozilla -h, tells me to use mozilla-bin, which resides in 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla, along with another binary called 'mozilla'. 
> What is the difference between all of these binaries; what is the 
> purpose of mozilla-bin and mozilla being there in the latter location?