From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 12:23:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11366 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11351 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 12:23:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA11902 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by mail.siemens.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA05442 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21416 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199810141923.VAA23509@internal> Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.07 for Linux20 In-Reply-To: <199810130105.SAA04297@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> from "Bruce A. Mah" at "Oct 12, 1998 6: 5:39 pm" To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: tlt@tltodd.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If memory serves me right, Terry Todd wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to run Netscape Communicator 4.07 for Linux20 on FreeBSD > > > > 2.2.5 or better with Linux emulation? > > > > > > I haven't heard anyone say you couldn't. Just make sure you have the > > > linux emulator loaded and have the latest library pack installed... > > I regularly run the Linux version of Communicator 4.07 with US encryption in > emulation (on 2.2.7-RELEASE). Works very nicely, although my machine tends to > swap a bit more than it would otherwise, due to the need to keep both Linux > and BSD libraries in memory. > > > Or better yet why not just go to Netscape's ftp site and get 4.08 > > netscape for FreeBSD. > > One "why not" for me, anyways, is that there's no such thing as a US > encryption release for FreeBSD, and for some work I do, that's a "must have". > > (Rant on encryption politics omitted...) Pipe any exportable netscape 4.0x through the following program and you get strong encryption. That's what I do always with the 40-bit versions for HP-UX, FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS and even Winblows. It keeps me from having to wait until fortify comes out... ---------------------- snip -------------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl -0pi s/BITS:.*/$_=$&;y,a-z, ,;s, {4}$,true,gm;s, 512,2048,;$_/es ---------------------- snap -------------------------- -Andre P.S.: This thing was not developed by me, it was posted to the list a while ago :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message