From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 22:59:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13309 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA13303 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA07894; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:00:35 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:00:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Randy DuCharme cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD growing pains In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote: > Many thanks to all who have helped so far with my early "FreeBSD journey" difficulties. There's a couple more things that I can't seem to fix. > 1) In X, using the fvwm window manager, when I start an xterm window from the utilities popup, the window opens with the following... > xterm: Can't execvp tcsh Oh, what is the solution to this? Did you take "COMPAT_43" out of your kernel? If so put it back; xterm is one of those archaic apps that needs it. > 2) How do I figure out how to configure my Okidata OL400, and DeskJet 560 printers? Check out the Handbook on the section on printers. > 3) Which version of Netscape works with FreeBSD. I tried the BDSI version (2.03) but it didn't start. 2.02 works great right out of the box. I'd try 2.03 if I could find it. It's not on Netscape's home site. :-/ Try symlinking /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11, or setting the environment variables given in the README. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major