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From: kheller2@ix.netcom.com (Karl Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:08:36
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In article <565u9v$38o@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) writes:
>From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe)
>Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
>Date: 10 Nov 1996 17:08:15 -0800

>In article <32865667.232453159@news.qni.com>,
>John S Flowers <jflowers@maas-neotek.org> wrote:
>>Has anyone successfully rin Netscape (any version about 2.0) on FreeBSD 2.1.5
>or
>>2.2?

>I've run 1.1, 2.0, and 3.01 on various versions of FreeBSD. 

>>Netscape appears to run, but there are dozens of error messages that I get
>while
>>running it.  I realize that Netscape was created for BSDi more than FreeBSD,
>but
>>surely there's a way to run it.



 What kind of error messages?  Netscape dumps a lot of complaints about
your x environment unless you set it up with one of the x files that comes
with netscape.

  Somewhere in the install/readme file it says netscape looks in a default
location for some config file for x.  Make sure that is correct.

 Boy.. that sounded so vague.  I'm on a W95 crap machine right now and
can't check it for you.

  I'll tell you this:  Netscape on a Pentium 130 under 2.1.5 is way
faster than the Sparc-10 version for Solaris.

Karl