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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu!usenet From: Ivan Lima <ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Good Web Browser for FreeBSD (or help me make Netscape work) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:51:34 -0500 Organization: University of Miami - RSMAS Lines: 25 Message-ID: <30FEB2D6.41C67EA6@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu> References: <4d1ekj$8ai@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) To: Peter Seibel <seibel@mojones.com> 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 > and crashes when I try to paste into a text window even though I have the nls > directory which is supposed to stop that from happening. So can I make > Netscape work or can someone recommend another browser (with version, etc. > ideally) that they know works well on FreeBSD. > Thanks. > > -Peter You have two ways to fix it. 1- change the enviroment variables XKEYSYMDB and XNLSPATH 2- create a link to X11R6 in /usr named X11. The default path to the necessary files in netscape is /usr/X11/...whatever, so if you create a link to X11R6 named X11 in /usr Netscape will work without problems. I did that and it worked -- Ivan D. Lima Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu http://nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu/homepage/home.html