Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> Cc: Jim Still <jimstill@home.com>, <trevor@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: bsdi-netscape-communicator-4.75 Message-ID: <20010818231716.W58301-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <20010818184131.A10949@helios.soupnazi.org>
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Today Jim Mock wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 at 18:58:51 -0400, Jim Still wrote:
> > Hi, I'm a real newbie to FreeBSD, but I think to learn it best I need
> > to get a web browser for it, so I can read manuals, etc., and then
> > practice the commands in BSD, rather than using 2 separate machines to
> > do it, or printing out hundreds of pages.
> >
> > Can you direct me to a step by step instruction manual for installing
> > the bsd netscape?
>
> cd /usr/ports/www/bsdi-netscape47-communicator && make install distclean
>
> It's that simple.
Not quite. The make file includes:
FORBIDDEN= "buffer overflow in password field of HTML forms,\
reported by Michal Zalewski and fixed in 4.76--example at \
http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/hostile-page.html ; \
also has GIF comment bug--see \
http://dividuum.de/security/netscape/ "
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