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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:08:15 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: netscape 4.02b7
Message-ID:  <199708040538.PAA01628@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4339.870648420@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 3, 97 03:47:00 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>> I was poking around on netscape ftp servers and I found 4.02b7
>> released for freebsd.  I first got the bsdi1.1 version as the 2.1
>> version core dumped when using java when it came out 2 days ago,
>> but today I went and I found the freebsd version on the ftp site.
>>
>> Anyway, hit
>> ftp://ftp23.netscape.com//pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix
>
> Just to note that it's still in the process of propagating to the
> other FTP sites, which is why no one had quite announced it yet. :)
>
> Once it does make it, someone will undoubtedly create a port for it
> which takes care of all the installation issues.
>
> Thanks also go out to a certain skunk-works project at Netscape who
> produced this product for FreeBSD!

Grrrr.  Who took it away?  I downloaded
/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix/freebsd/professional_edition/communicator-v402b7-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz
this morning, and had difficulties installing it: it doesn't seem to
contain any app_defaults/Netscape.  So I went back to have a look, and
at 17:45 on August 3 (round the end of my download), the files appear
to have been removed.

I found the answer to my question: the install script doesn't install
the app-defaults/Netscape file, but it's in the main install directory
(which, for some reason, defaulted to /opt/netscape) as Netscape.ad.

BTW, this is just a beta release which expires at the end of October.

Greg



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