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From: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backspace doesn't work in Netscape
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 03:09:43 GMT
Organization: One FreeBSD box
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Tom Misiak (misiak@foto.infi.net) wrote:
: All,

: 	I'm using Netscape 2.x under FreeBSD 2.1  The backspace
: key doesn't work.  It's rather annoying to have to highlight text
: with the mouse and retype.  Any suggestions on what may help?  
: Also, if I try to paste any text into the netscape window, it
: core dumps and dies, any suggestions?

: TIA,
:      Tom

Did you add the following line to your .cshrc file?

setenv	XKEYSYMDB=/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB

eyager@novagate.com