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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0b6 and Java?
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 16:02:35 -0700
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Brian Quirion wrote:
> 
> Anyone out there have any luck getting this to work with
> FreeBSD 2.1?
> Any and all help appreciated.
> 

I don't yet know about the Java part, because I haven't yet accessed any 
Java sites with the Beta 6 release. However, Netscape itself works fine 
for me. I run 2.1R with Xfree 3.1.2 in a standard installation.

Two items: one controversial as to whether it is needed (it used to be, 
at least), and the other necessary to allow copy/paste operations from 
the 'View Document Source' menu.

First, you may need a symlink so Netscape can access the X11R6 directory 
as just X11. Second, in the Netscape tarball there is a /nls directory 
with two files in it. Copy them to X11/lib/X11/nls (which you may have to 
create).

Now, if X is working properly, Netscape will run in that environment.
-- 
Ken

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