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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:52:31 -0500
From: "Jesse D. Troy" <jtroy@vt.edu>
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Soren Dossing wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Jesse D. Troy wrote:
> >       The netscape port in the 2.1.6R ports collection is old.  The version
> > of netscape it looks for (3.05b) doesn't appear to be on Netscape's ftp
> > sites anymore.  I did notice however, that the ports collection for
> > FreeBSD current has an updated Netscape port (3.01).  I don't know if
> > this port will work for 2.1.6R though....
> 
> I would suggest you to go ahead and try it - it is pretty generic, so it
> should work for all version of FreeBSD.
> 
> Soren


	Well, I installed the netscape port from the FreeBSD Current ports
collection. Everything went just fine with the installation.  However,
Java applets still don't display for me.  (I even followed the
directions for the mkfontdir command that they gave you).



Jesse Troy
jtroy@vt.edu