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From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: copy/paste in X
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Studded:
 |Randall Hopper wrote:
 |>  |XNSLPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls; export XNLSPATH
 |>    ^^^
 |>    NLS
 |> 
 |> Maybe this is your problem.
 |> In case this is just a msg composition typo, 
 |
 |	It was, thanks. I can't cut and paste into netscape. :)
 |
 |> I'll go on to describe my setup.
 |> 
 |> 3.3.1 X11R6 install doesn't deliver an nls (no past version has AFAIK), so
 |
 |	Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is an nls?  

Native Language System, I believe -- for handling multiple languages.  The
non-X NLS (catopen, etc.) is used to find locale-specific message catalogs.
I assume the X NLS is similar (fontsets, codesets, encodings, keyboard
mappings, etc.)

 |> I've been using the nls files that came out of the Netscape pre-4.x
 |> packages:
 |
 |	Do you think that you could tar that directory and mail it to me?  I
 |wasn't aware that there were any files involved, but that could explain
 |why it's not working. :)

Sure.  

Randall