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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 1996 19:59:51 +0000 ()
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        edward.ing@utoronto.ca
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No info on how to run Configuration Menu from installed BSD, and
Message-ID:  <199607261959.TAA02446@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <31ED6043.7A09@utoronto.ca> from "edward.ing@utoronto.ca" at Jul 17, 96 05:50:59 pm

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> The instructions say explicitly to do the following,
> 
> 	#cd /usr/ports/net/netscape
> 	#make all install
> 
> Netscape could not be installed as instructed. The error message read
> as follows 
> 	"netscape-v112-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.Z does not
> 	 seem to exist on the system
> 	 Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.netscape.com [... etc.]
> 
> Note that the PORTS filesystem is installed under /usr.
 
What you did was correct.  Unfortunately, the licensing terms on
Netscape do not allow anyone else to distribute it, which is why 
it has to be downloaded from their FTP site.

I'd recommend lynx instead - it's a nice simple text-based 
HTML browser that doesn't require you to get X Window working 
in order to use it, and which can be distributed in the same way
as almost all other free software.

> Please instruct me how to get past these difficulties since it I
> cannot get past them myself because I cannot access the documentation 
> required because of these difficulties.

There are plain text versions provided as well...

# cd /usr/share/doc/handbook
# more handbook.ascii




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