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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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cc: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>, dcv@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Netscape floating point exception
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Peter Dufault wrote:

> > On Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:57:41 -0400 (EDT)  Dimitri Vlahakis wrote:
> > 
> > > I've installed the netscape atlas beta into my freebsd 2.1 system using
> > > the port makefile.  Unfortunately, whenever I try to run it I get the
> > > opening window, but when I click on the window and it then tries to load
> > > netscape's page it dumps core and exits with the message "floating
> > > exception"  The same thing happened when I tried running netscape 2.1.
> > 
> > I've seen this on a machine without a math co-processor (a 486SX)
> > which was using the standard math emulator and the BSDI version of
> > netscape.
> > 
> > I would suggest trying the GNU math emulator, which is supposed to be
> > more complete.  You need to re-configure your kernel to test this.
> > 
> > [Regarding someone else's suggestion about limited memory: the 486SX
> > has 20Mb, so I don't think that is the problem. :-]
> 
> There is something new in the Netscape home page causing floating
> point exceptions for FreeBSD.  Specify an alternate homepage
> (e.g. "netscape freebsd.org") to get off the ground.

	Hmmm, so that's the problem but it seems to work fine when I open 
that page manually.  wonder why?

Richard