From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 23:38:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16882 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16872 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01898; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:32:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3695B47D.3B02A9EF@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:32:13 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" CC: "N. R.R." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape ftp problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > You do not have to re-download. Also, there is an even better way to > install netscape. > > first gzip the tar file that you have > move it to /usr/ports/distfiles > cd to /usr/ports/www/netscape45-communigator > make install Communicator (from netscape) is compressed into .jar files within the gzipped tarball, and comes with its own expander (ns-install i believe) so this extra work is a bit of overkill. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message