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From: Paul Flores <pflores@mazda.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Web Browser for FreeBSD (or help me make Netscape work)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:58:09 -0600
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Ryan Schutt wrote:
> 
> Peter Seibel wrote:
> >
> > Subject sort of says it all. I've got Netscape on a FreeBSD box and it sort of
> > works but it gives a whole bunch of "Translation table" (or some such) errors
> 
> I had the same exact problem.
> 
> Netscape needs to look at two environment variables to work
> properly.  You need to make sure you have
> XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB , and
> XNLSPATH=$WHERE_YOU_INSTALLED/nls/
> 


Or, you can just read the README, and put the nls files where netscape
expects them. :>

Paul