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From: "Gustav B. West" <gwest@mltsa.uk.lucent.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 2.02 or 3.0 on FreeBSD
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:13:26 +0000
Organization: Lucent Technologies
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Charlie Sorsby wrote:
> 
> But, while I'm at it, I still prefer mosaic.  Unfortunately, I
> don't have motif nor can I afford it right now.  Is there no
> precompiled mosaic (from a reliable site, of course) for FreeBSD as
> there is for, say, SunOS?
> 

I seem to remember that NCSA Mosaic is available from the ports on the
2nd disk. Obviously it needs 'making' and I think it gets ftp'd from
somewhere, so you'll have to wait while it gets downloaded.

But it compiles and works a treat, I tried it. Dunno why you prefer
Mosiac to Netscape though :-}

Regards,

GUS 
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