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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:24:03 -0700
From: Tony Jones <tony@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Netscape
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Doug White wrote:

: > I want to use Netscape Navigator v2.01 with my FreeBSD v2.1.0 box.  Has anyone 
: > successfully installed and run Netscape through XFree86 Xwindows?  I was wondering 
: > where & how to set the $XKEYSYMDB environmental variable ( which is required if 
: > not running Motif )...???

: To fix the stupid XKeysymDB junk, symlink /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11.  

Or just execute netscape with a modified environment. This is my 
/usr/local/bin/netscape

tony

#!/bin/sh

LIB=/usr/local/lib/netscape

XKEYSYMDB=$LIB/XKeysymDB export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH=$LIB/nls export XNLSPATH

exec $LIB/netscape $* 2> /dev/null