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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 18:36:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu>
To: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
Cc: "Larry S. Marso" <lsmarso@panix.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: anyone solve netscape 4.01b6 problem?
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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Howard Lew wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Justin Ashworth wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 1997 at 12:42:37PM -0600, Justin Ashworth wrote:
> > > > I ran the Linux
> > > > version successfully until I found that it was doing some pretty strange
> > > > things with my mailboxes, but if you don't use Netscape Mail the Linux
> > > > version works really well.
> > > 
> > > Which Linux version do you recommend? 
> > 
> >   4.01b6 works fine under a FreeBSD 3.0 SNAP from Feb...unless you plan on
> > using Netscape mail for storing messages.
> 
> Hmmm... Preview release 6 seems to dump core on startup with some kind of
> floating exception error.  Preview release 5 didn't have that problem... 
> Went back to Netscape v3.01 with FreeBSD 3.0 june 97.
> 
> Which bsdi version did you download?

  It looks like you took this out of context. I was alluding to the Linux
version 4.01b6 running on FreeBSD. Read two lines above where I started
with "4.01b6". I also have the core dump problem with the bsdi version of
4.01b6.

- Justin Ashworth
-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth