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From: Georg Wagner <Georg.Wagner@ubs.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Communicator for BSD/386
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:00:06 +0200
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland 
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Ron Echeverri wrote:
> 
> In article <RHUFF.97Jun20110325@shell1.cybercom.net>,
> Robert Huff <rhuff@shell1.cybercom.net> wrote:
> >In article <33AA65FdA.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard"
> >       <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >>   There is also the BSD/OS version - why aren't people simply grabbing
> >>   that?  It's been there since May 29th, sitting in
> >>   ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.0/4.0b5/unix/other, and it
> >>   also joined the ports collection as www/netscape4 on the 1st of June, 20
> >>   days ago.
> 
> Thanks to Jordan and Yaron for pointing out the "other" directory.
> 
> >       Have i been laboring under a misunderstanding that the beta
> >releases of Netscape all have expiration dates?
> >       I was hoping to get a version I don't have to replace in 6
> >weeks ....
> 
> They don't have any release versions for Unix yet, just for Win & Mac.
> 
> What the world needs is a browser as functional as Netscape but
> without all of the retarded baggage.
> 
> rone
> --
> Ron Echeverri         Best Internet Usenet Administration         rone@best.net
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>        "This is your head...  and this is Henry Rollins stomping on it."

You could use Grail out of the python stuff as a replacement for
Netscape.

-- 
Georg Wagner
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