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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape and FreeBSD?
Date: 19 Nov 1995 23:51:11 GMT
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To: mikhail@panix.com (Mikhail Kuperblum)
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In article <487ckt$jgh@panix.com>,
	mikhail@panix.com (Mikhail Kuperblum) writes:
>As Hanns B. Wetzel <Hanns.Wetzel@b130.aone.net.au> enunciated:
>
>> Have just installed the new Netscape beta 2.0b. It works fine on FreeBSD
>> 2.0.5. The pervious version also worked OK, Ithinnk it was Ver 1.12??
>> 
>> Make sure you set the XNLSPATH and XKEYSYMDB variable though. Without them
>> things are a real mess.
>
>True. I've tried v2.0b yesterday. It looks nice, except for some
>inexplicable reason it keeps telling me that file ~.netscape/lock
>exists and assumes that someone else is running Netscape and uses
>my .netscape* files, which isn't true. It says that even if I'd
>remove ~/.netscape/ prior to starting Netscape. Had anyone ran
>into this phenomena or it's just me?

Same for me 2.0beta sucks... The News Reader and Mailreader
hangs ... and so on :(

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