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From: norbert@menetekel.kiel.org (Norbert Roeschmann)
Subject: Re: Netscape on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <Z3L5BMFL@menetekel.kiel.org>
Organization: Froesche ! Froesche! Nix als FROESCHE !!!
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 17:58:27 GMT
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harverso@aztec.co.za (Tony Harverson) writes:
>"Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
>>It will be nice if netscape compiled an X11R6 version for FreeBSD :)
>>This is what I set in order to prevent netscape from core dumping on
>>freebsd when I paste something on a window.
>>setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
>>setenv XNLSPATH /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls
>This is not only a FreeBSD problem - the same thing happened the first
>time I set up Netscape on a sunos machine... If you read the readme
>file that comes with netscape, it specifies that you have to put the
>above two lines in..
>After that was fixed, I never had any problems with the bsdi version
>(besides that complaining about uname() thing it does... If you don't
>mind the error message then it works fine.
Sorry to say, but it does not work here. I'm running FreeBSD-2.05 and
tried netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z. I did any of the
steps mentioned above, but netscape core-dumps on startup with segmentation
fault. Netscape1.0 works fine. Do you have any idea ?
Greetings,
Norbert
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