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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI compatibility in 2.1-stable ?
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 21:37:04 -0700
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Jean-Pierre Morant wrote:
> 
> I've heard that the latest 2.1-stable supports BSDI binaries. Is it true
> ?Does anyone have experience with this ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JPM
> 

The only one I've tried is the BSDI version of Netscape for X window. At 
least some versions of Netscape want an X11 directory instead of X11R6. 
However, once I put a symlink into /usr/local:

	ln -s X11R6 X11

Netscape has been perfectly happy.

Ken