From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 19:24:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20810 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20792 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA22231; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:24:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:24:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Shan-Min Chao cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape help In-Reply-To: <01bd1b2f$01b08380$011581d1@shan> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > I am in need of dire help. I have set up XWindows and configured my > PPP dialer in FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I just attempted to install Netscape. > I downloaded the gzip file from the netscape FTP site and stored it in > the /usr directory. I then did a > > gzip -dc "filename" | tar -xvf - > > which extracted the files. According to the Netscape site, I was then > supposed to type ./nl-install, but I could not find a "nl" file! Try installing the port. It takes care of this silliness for you. > Also, my XWindows resolution is way too big, which makes the fonts way > too small, and the mouse takes forever to move. Any ideas how to lower > the resolution to fix this problem? Ctrl-Alt-greyminus Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major