From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 3 23:19:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16431 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16421 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27207; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:23:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Greg Lehey cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: netscape 4.02b7 In-Reply-To: <199708040538.PAA01628@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >> I was poking around on netscape ftp servers and I found 4.02b7 > >> released for freebsd. I first got the bsdi1.1 version as the 2.1 > >> version core dumped when using java when it came out 2 days ago, > >> but today I went and I found the freebsd version on the ftp site. > >> > >> Anyway, hit > >> ftp://ftp23.netscape.com//pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix > > > > Just to note that it's still in the process of propagating to the > > other FTP sites, which is why no one had quite announced it yet. :) > > > > Once it does make it, someone will undoubtedly create a port for it > > which takes care of all the installation issues. > > > > Thanks also go out to a certain skunk-works project at Netscape who > > produced this product for FreeBSD! > > Grrrr. Who took it away? I downloaded > /pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/freebsd/professional_edition/communicator-v402b7-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > this morning, and had difficulties installing it: it doesn't seem to > contain any app_defaults/Netscape. So I went back to have a look, and > at 17:45 on August 3 (round the end of my download), the files appear > to have been removed. > > I found the answer to my question: the install script doesn't install > the app-defaults/Netscape file, but it's in the main install directory > (which, for some reason, defaulted to /opt/netscape) as Netscape.ad. > > BTW, this is just a beta release which expires at the end of October. Hmmm.... looks like it is still there as of 8-3-97 11PM PDT... Perhaps, it's not on all of Netscape's ftp servers. Looks like another champion of a web browser and appears to be much more stable. (If anyone at Netscape is listening in... good job.) Only wish it had Conference and Netcaster, but I guess we still have to iron out the sound code. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoppers Network (Support) AMD K5/K6s, Cyrix 6x86, Intel Pentiums/Pro Phone: (415) 759-8584 Email: howard@shoppersnet.com ==============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~