From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 03:53:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA24289 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from emerald.accessv.com (emerald.accessv.com [206.221.248.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA24282 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:53:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grobin@accessv.com) Received: from accessv.com (port021-86.accessv.com [209.50.86.21]) by emerald.accessv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA29111; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 06:50:38 -0500 Message-ID: <34A4EC03.55F86D80@accessv.com> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 06:52:35 -0500 From: Geoffrey Robinson Reply-To: grobin@accessv.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do you keep Netscape on this planet? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > > > I can't seem to find Netscape4 or 3 for FreeBSD anywhere. I've been all > > > > over ftp.netscape.com but its not where it should be (or at least where > > > > > > There is no Netscape 3.x for FreeBSD, but the Linux or BSDI version will > > > work. The FreeBSD version of Communicator is @ > > > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.04/development/english/unix/freebsd/base_install/. > > > Just run the installer and enjoy, ive never found a need to use the port. > > > > I got it, thanks. Could I ask you for a hand with installing it? I could > > only get as far as using gunzip to decompress it but I can't figure out > > how to use tar to unpack it. > > tar xvf tarfile.tar. The run sh ns-install.sh, or whatever the install > file is named. (I don't remember) Great, thanks. One question though. Why do I have to enter 'sh' before the install program? -- Geoffrey Robinson grobin@accessv.com Oakville, Ontario, Canada.