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From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
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To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca
Subject: Re: netscape and 2.1.5
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>Are you certain you have the XKeysymDB file in the right place?  
>Theoretically, you can put the XKeysymDB file anywhere and just set 
>$XKEYSYMDB to its location, but I seem to recall that this didn't work 
>for me.  You should create the directory /usr/lib/X11/ and copy the 
>supplied XKeysymDB file there.

Bingo.  That was it:  BSD/OS apparantly uses /usr/X11/ as the prefix, while
FreeBSD uses /usr/X11R6.  So I created teh appropriate symlink, and now it
starts without errors.

It even recognizes my backspace key ;).

Sean.