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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@esus.cs.montana.edu>
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, Justin Ashworth wrote:

> 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.

Ooops.... oh... I guess it was wishful thinking.  I'll see how preview 
release 7 turns out.