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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:02:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com>
To:        JULIAN Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        didier@omnix.fr.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.ULT.3.91.960327160020.10113A-100000@sxt2.space.lockheed.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603272114.NAA22817@ref.tfs.com>

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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, JULIAN Elischer wrote:

> EXACTLY what I'm looking for...

To the request for:

> > is there an HOWTO file that explains the installation steps of netscape
> > for linux.
> > 
> > I installed the emulator, netscape start but is not able to find 
> > any addess. the problem seems to be related to the DNS or one of 
> > the configuration file (resolv.conf or host.conf)

Rich Murphey <rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> has in a round-about way 
answered this question in the recent Mathmatica debate.  The answers are:

RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf; export RESOLV_HOST_CONF

where /compat/linux/etc/host.conf can be created by:

echo 'order bind,hosts' > /compat/linux/etc/host.conf


--Brian



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