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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:02:10 -0500
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: copy/paste in X
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Studded:
 |Randall Hopper wrote:
 |>|I've just started using XFree86 with afterstep.  I can't seem to copy from
 |>|an xterm window and then paste into Netscape.  I can copy/paste from xterm
 |>|to xterm and from Netscape to xterm, though.  Is this something strange
 |>|about Netscape or X or afterstep or me?
 |> 
 |> Look at the netscape install tips in the package -- search for "nls".
 |> 
 |> Nothing wrong with which packages you're using -- I'm an
 |> XFree86-AfterStep-Netscape user too.
 |
 |	Can you by chance post *exactly* what you did to make this work? I have
 |the same 3 packages and haven't been able to. I have the following in my
 |netscape wrapper script:
 |
 |XNSLPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls; export XNLSPATH
 |
 |and that directory exists with 777 perms. Please tell me that there is
 |somthing obvious I'm missing. :)

 |XNSLPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls; export XNLSPATH
   ^^^
   NLS

Maybe this is your problem.  

In case this is just a msg composition typo, I'll go on to describe my
setup.

3.3.1 X11R6 install doesn't deliver an nls (no past version has AFAIK), so
I've been using the nls files that came out of the Netscape pre-4.x
packages:

     > ls -l nls
     total 5
     -r--r--r--  1 rhh  staff  3098 Oct 21  1996 C
     -r--r--r--  1 rhh  staff     4 Oct 21  1996 nls.dir

I installed these off /opt/lib/X11/nls (just because I don't like to mix my
mods with package dirs), and set the XNLSPATH env var in my /etc/csh.cshrc
to point there.  BTW, the dir has 755 perms.

I notice there's also a symlink in my nls dir that is a full-path symlink
to that same dir -- beats me (don't remember creating it).

Randall