Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:30:22 -0600 (CST) From: Wm Brian McCane <root@bmccane.uit.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape communicator versions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970403092615.13557A-100000@bmccane.uit.net> In-Reply-To: <199703160620.BAA10332@r74h25.res.gatech.edu>
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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Charles Henrich wrote: > > There are two bsd versions of communicator now, one file identifies as: > > > > netscape: 386BSD demand paged executable > > > > and one as > > > > netscape: BSD/386 demand paged (first page unmapped) pure ex > > > > Which is the first? > > > I suspect that the former, from: > > netscape-v40b2-export.x86-unknown-bsd.tar.gz > > is the BSD/386 1.1 version. > > I would guess that the latter, from: > > netscape-v40b2-export.x86-unknown-bsd2.tar.gz > > is the BSD/OS 2.x version. The first one was a little more stable > on my machine (SMP kernel, -current from around the end of January) than > the second, so I went with that one. > > There are still a number of bugs with it, though. For instance, it > doesn't seem to respond to -geometry, and crashes whenever you try to look > at the source to a page with a java applet in it. (check out the non-java > and java versions of the SGI home page -- it only crashes on the Java > version) > > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu > Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis. > Communicator has various bugs involving JAVA. I have about 6 graphics intensive applets I have been playing with (trying to design a NEAT logo 8). All of them operate correctly in `appletviewer' and look right on MSIE3. I am playing with a double-buffered video scheme, and something in Communicator keeps blanking my background buffer. brian +-------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ He rides a cycle of mighty days, and \ Wm Brian and Lori McCane he represents the last great schizm \ McCane Consulting among the gods. Evil though he obviously \ root@bmccane.uit.net is, he is a mighty figure, this father of \ http://bmccane.uit.net/ my spirit, and I respect him as the sons \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~pictures/ of old did the fathers of their bodies. \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bmccane/ Roger Zelazny - "Lord of Light" \ http://bmccane.uit.net/~bbs/ +---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+
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