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From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown)
Subject: Netscape on FreeBSD can't open display other than :0.0
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	Even setting the DISPLAY environment variable to koala:9 or
koala:0.0 (where koala is the name of the machine runing NetScape) fails
almost instantly with a "Can't  open Display" error. 

	I can set it to grizzly:0 run xterm and up pops the xterm on
the other machine. Next I type netsacpe, and the error appears. There is
some discussion in the README file about being staticly linked against
X11R5 instead of X11R^, bit even so, at least one of the machines that
I am trying this on is runnig a R5 serever.

	Has anyone else seen this beahviorm or is ti something pecuilar
about my system?


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Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    404-996-6955
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