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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:26:30 -0500
From:      Marie-Josee Blais <mjblais@miranda.com>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with netscape 4.5 and fonts
Message-ID:  <199903102129.QAA16268@norton.miranda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903101950.OAA01941@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
References:  <199903101827.NAA12802@norton.miranda.com>

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Thanks for answering so quickly. What I mean by locally is running netscape
on my FreeBSD system.  Anyways, I removed my .netscape directory and
netscape 4.5 started just fine. Thanks again !

At 14:50 1999-03-10 -0500, you wrote:
>Marie-Josee Blais wrote,
>> Hello I've just installed Netscape 4.5 on FreeBSD 2.2.7 and when I try to
>> start it up it gives me this error.
>>=20
>>   no recognized font charsets!
>>=20
>> I'm actually running netscape remotely with Exceed 5.0.
>>=20
>> I've then tried to run these commands that were suggested at the end of=
 the
>> install but I still get the same message.
>>=20
>>   cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
>>   /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
>>   chmod 444 fonts.dir
>
>This won't do you any good. The fonts are not being found on your
>local machine, the one running Exceed.
>
>> Netscape 3.0 works fine.
>
>Switching between versions of Netscape can have odd effects on your
>.netscape files. I run 3.01 on my FreeBSD machine and 4.<mumble> on my
>SGI. My bookmarks file has been cleared more than once after
>switching between them.
>
>> I can't run netscape locally because my mouse
>> isn't setup in the configuration menu at boot up and shutting down at the
>> time is not an option.  I still tried to execute  netscape and even=
 before
>> it complains that X isn't running it gives me yet again . . .
>
>I do not understand what you are saying here. When you say 'locally'
>are you now talking about sitting at the 2.2.7 machine?
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>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
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