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To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
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Subject: Re: application/x-tcl: netscape plugin for Linux not running 
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Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 23:33:47 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 
> I registered and downloaded the binary version for Linux
> which comes closest to FreeBSD as binary format.
> 
> I tried both, the system wide installation and the user
> installation. Netscape even doesn't seem to find the
> plugin ...

You cannot generally mix and match ABIs in a single binary, ie. expect 
a Linux shared library to work linked against a FreeBSD executable.

> Is it possibly to let a Linux binary run as plugin ?

You would have to run the Linux Netscape for this.

> Or is there something in sight, that there will be a FreeBSD
> version ?!

There is some expectation that there will be a FreeBSD version of the 
Tcl plugin, yes.

mike