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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eerie.fr!cnusc.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!inetway.net!news1.isdnet.net!pressimage!rain.fr!oops.ip.lu!not-for-mail From: phrank <frank@ip.lu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x Subject: Re: Netscape 4.01b6 and FreeBSD - ARGH! Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:46:49 +0200 Organization: Infopartners S.A. Luxembourg Lines: 41 Message-ID: <33BB7509.95E81DD0@ip.lu> References: <33BB5706.E191709C@panoramix.rain.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blabla.ip.lu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43862 comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:10470 <HTML> Tom Fischer wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Hello, <P>Well, it appears that neither the <BR>communicator-v401b6-export.x86-bsdi-bsd.tar.gz nor the <BR>communicator-v401b6-export.x86-bsdi-bsd2.tar.gz versions <BR>now work on FreeBSD. <P>I tried installing both, using the 'ns-install' script, set <BR>all my environment variables, and nothing would even come up! <BR>The disk would churn for a second, then I'd get a friendly <P>"floating point exception" message. <P>I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE with XFree86 3.3. <P>4.0b5 runs (I wouldn't say it runs well- java won't run in 8bpp <BR>graphics mode...). <P>Has anyone had any better luck? <P>I'm now thinking of breaking down and installing the Linux <BR>emulator and trying out the linux versions... <P>tom <P>tfischer@rain.fr</BLOCKQUOTE> <P>i'd like to confirm tom's observation ;-( same enviroment, same effect ) <PRE>-frank</PRE> <PRE> -- frank segner tel. : +352 - 2957593488 infopartners s.a. fax : +352 - 2957593900 luxembourg frank@ip.lu</PRE> </HTML>