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From: jkane@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Good Web Browser for FreeBSD (or help me make Netscape work)
Date: 5 Mar 1996 03:09:16 GMT
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Pascal Gienger (pascal@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de) wrote:
: Peter Seibel (seibel@mojones.com) 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.
: You need to copy the nls directory and the XKeysymDB File included in
: the Netscape distribution in order to have NLS functions and the Motif
: Keysym Table available.
This assumes that he is runing Motif!!! Motif is not part of the dists.
I have found this same problem. Just something we have to live with
short of geting motif to use it. Please correct me if I am wrong on this
point. I would liek to get rid of those error messages also.
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