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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1!news.math.psu.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!lakesis.fapesp.br!recife.di.ufpe.br!mirage.nlink.com.br!usenet From: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@lftc.ufpe.br> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Netscape & FreeBSD Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 15:53:01 -0300 Organization: Netlink Com. & Cons. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31598E8D.41C67EA6@lftc.ufpe.br> References: <4j97mk$h68$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mirage.nlink.com.br Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16322 comp.unix.bsd.misc:594 comp.windows.x.i386unix:19659 Tim Trampedach wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I am relatively new to UNIX. I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on a 100 with > X-Windows installed. I have a direct internet connection and > currently have the machine running as an http server from inetd. I > recently downloaded netscape for BSDI from ftp.netscape.com, since I > want to access the web with it. Supposedly, FreeBSD is BSDI binary > compatible and after figuring out that netscape needs to be > installed in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory so that it can be called > upon and making sure that the /nls directory is put in the right > place, I cannot open Netscape. I get a 'Broken Pipe' error (I think > that was it!). Have I letf part of the installation out? Do I need > to make special entries somewhere? Does anyone have any experience > with this? > > Thanks for any comments, > > Tim TT Hello Tim I had the same problem. I think that if you make one link from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11 and copy the directory nls in the /usr/X11/lib/X11/. This nls is in Netscape distribution. Paulo Fragoso.