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From: dh@enter.net (Daniel Hauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Web Browser for FreeBSD (or help me make Netscape work)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 05:16:56 GMT
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Ryan Schutt <rschutt@vt.edu> wrote:

>Peter Seibel wrote:
>> 
>> Subject sort of says it all. I've got Netscape on a FreeBSD box and it sort of
>> works but it gives a whole bunch of "Translation table" (or some such) errors
>
>I had the same exact problem.
>
>Netscape needs to look at two environment variables to work
>properly.  You need to make sure you have
>XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB , and
>XNLSPATH=$WHERE_YOU_INSTALLED/nls/
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Ryan


YES! I would like to see those and the solution too!
                               dan hauer