Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:59:06 +0000 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: "Rashid N. Achilov" <shelton@sentry.granch.ru> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0305225906-0b0Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000305204550.shelton@sentry.granch.ru>
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On Sun 05 Mar, Rashid N. Achilov wrote: > > On 04-Mar-00 mlduke wrote: > > Thanks. That worked, and fast. The 2.2.x compat, for those who may need > > this later is on the cdrom set, disk one: > > /stand/sysinstall > > Post Install Configuration > > Install additional distribution sets > > > > What about X11 a.out libraries? Do you have it? > > P.S. I don't know why Netscape make your browser in a.out so far... > What can I contact him and explain, that FreeBSD netscape must be in ELF? Well, when you have the a.out compat-libs installed, it still works on ELF systems, and even older 2.2-System then can get it to work. There are a lot of old CDs floating around, I imagine. And thus if someone (e.g. in poor Russia or one of the even poorer states surrounding it) somehow gets hold of an old copy of, say 2.2.6 (which where "dumped" in masses some time a go), he can still download the very latest Netscape 4.72 and play with it. Netscape/AOL want to maximise their customer-base with minimal effort, that's probably all. _I_ am generous that there is still a FreeBSD-version at all, that gets updated regularily. The only pitty is that a standard user-minimum-install doesn't install the a.out-ld.so anymore (which I had to find out the hard way). cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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