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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!metro.atlanta.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!feisal From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape install Date: 28 Oct 1996 11:45:32 GMT Organization: University of the West Indies Lines: 38 Message-ID: <slrn5797h4.5n.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> References: <551dtl$fnc@library.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cuscon6.tstt.net.tt X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.0.0 (BETA) UNIX) In article <551dtl$fnc@library.airnews.net>, Royce Tidwell wrote: > >I'm fairly new to fbsd, and don't really understand how to install >software, I guess. After dialing into my isp, and dloading >netscape(v30) unzipping and tarring, I get several files. The release >notes say something about an executable. I have no .exe file, >although I'm sure they were refering to the netscape file. When I try >to run netscape from x, i get bad command or filename. > >So the question is, after dloading and unzipping, how do you install? > >Thanks for the help, > >Royce Tidwell > OK, Unix executable files do not end in .exe, it's the permissions on the files that say whether it's executable or not, in fact it is possible to make a text file executable, of course whether it will run or not depends on what is in the file. An easy way to tell is to do "ls -F" on the files the executables will have a "*" appended to the end on the file name. Assuming you got the correct version of Netscape the first thing to do is read the README file, it's there for a reason :) Most of the stuff doesn't apply except the applet support and the BSD/386 section for nls support. Then try "./netscape" it should start up even without doing the stuff described in the README. Most newbies make the common mistake of assuming that if a file is in their current directory then it will be executed, that's a DOSism. Under UNIX you have to make it explicit either by including "." in your PATH or putting it on the command line. -Feisal -- Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.