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From: "A. Anderson" <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
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Subject: Re: netscape and 2.1.5
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:

> I installed 2.1.5-RELEASE yesterday, and have been trying to get netscape
> working.
> 
> I'm currently using Netscape-gold 3.0b8, although I've also tried their 3.0
> release version (in both cases, the x86-unknown-bsd version).
> 
> I have a couple of problems running it:
> 
> 1.  It complains about syntax errors and missing keysyms, even when I use
> the netscape-supplied XKeysymDB file.  A sample:
> 
> Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate
> Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key>osfActivate:activate()'
>[snip] 
> 2.  The other problem is that it does not recognize my backspace or delete
> key, which, given that I am not a perfect typist, does cause problems ;).
> 
> I asked Jordan, but he didn't seem to know about it... anyone know what's
> going on here?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean.
>

Yes, you need these two "setenv" lines somewhere:

# System-wide .cshrc file for csh(1).
setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
setenv XNLSPATH /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls

making sure that the relevant files are actually there.

The port of netscape puts the real binary in netscape.bin and
creates a file called netscape that sets these variables.  But
the port it uses is almost inevitably out of date.  If you then
get a more recent binary, you can copy it to netscape.bin without
having to do any sort of configuration.

This too is covered in http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/newuser/newuser.html.

Annelise