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From: Vladimir Roubtsov <roubtsov@uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0b6 and Java?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 19:23:08 -0500
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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steve farrell wrote:
> 
> >
> > Brian Quirion (quirion@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> > : Anyone out there have any luck getting this to work with
> > : FreeBSD 2.1?
> > : Any and all help appreciated.
> 
> you should use the port www/netscape3 if you can.  not sure if the
> change from moz3.zip -> java_30 has been included however, so you
> might have to copy this file manually.

Download the port, but before running "make" make two changes in the
Makefile (line starting with $FILES or something like this): replace
moz3.zip with java_30 and replace the actual netscape binary with the
current version (have a peek at netscape ftp site to find out what's
available at the moment), then proceed as with any other port. The
netscape3 port in FreeBSD port collection is outdated, the netscape
binary it tries to fetch isn't available anymore, the changes above make
sure it fetches correct files -- the procedure worked flawlessly for me.

Vlad.