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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous
Date: 18 Jun 1995 17:25:06 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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In article <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] <weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>
>This is utterly ridiculous! No, I'm not familiar with Metamail internals,
What's Metamail?
>P.S. to the FreeBSD side - why does Netscape give an error message about
> a failed uname() call on startup, when running on 2.0R ?
Because it is really a BSD/OS binary which probably has a minor
incompatibility in the uname() call? Or it could be a bug in Netscape
for all I know. Doesn't seem to affect it adversely though. Start it
from a window manager and you'll never see the error, if you're
worried about aesthetics.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org