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Date:      Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:53:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: amaya & toth & a small x whinge (was: find/search a string in Netscape)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901090146550.24360-100000@guru.phone.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990109202706.J5652@caamora.com.au>

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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, jonathan michaels wrote:
> > Ah, I missed that. How about running it on FreeBSD as a Linux binary?
> 
> i did think about that .. but, the root cause of my systems unreliability is 
> running xfree itself, i get allsorts of core dumps from all sorts of programs, 
> from ee upto teh big daddy netscape, thier is no rhyme or reason. it all 
> started soon after v2.1.7 and i cannot pin it down.

ouch...

> i was happily runing freebsd and xfree on a i486dx33 with 16 mb then i 
> upgraded to v2.1.7 AND this problem started, a freind suggested it was time 
> to update. i went to a p5-133 and 64 mb dram and pci buslogic 958, smc digital
> chip set nic, and a stb trio 64v+ graphcis card .. the same problem manifested,
> so i thought i'd give it one last try.

2.1.7?  Not 2.2.7? Try 2.2.8, or better yet, 3.0-RELEASE. I'm not
completely happy with XFree, and am thinking about buying one of the
commercial servers.

> > > > I took a brief look a building Amaya on NetBSD, then got
> > > 
> > > how did it compare with arena, look and feel isues,tools availability ?
> > 
> > Never got it working. The distraction was the FreeBSD box :-). The
> > NetBSD box is still there, but slated to be replaced by a FreeBSD one.

Well, FreeBSD doesn't run on the NetBSD box. I was running it before
the war. I went to FreeBSD for my workstation for a number of
reasons. The NetBSD box needs to be ugpraded and able to run binaries
from my workstation, so...

> > development would be welcome. And even if it works, I'd certainly be
> > interested in Amaya/Thoth. Proably won't replace psgml for creating
> 
> me too, and this psgml .. que, psgml

psgml is an emacs SGML editing mode. Runs in my favorite editor, and
understands the structure of HTML documents, so I can ask it "What's a
legal tag here", or just tell it "close the currently open tag."

> i have no real need to 'do html' for a living so to speak, but i am looking 
> for an editor that will allow this sort of functionality .. i looked at 
> docbook and nearly turned in my grave .. i left all that behind after my stint 
> with wordstar v3.3.something.
> 
> regards
> 
> jonathan
> 
> ps i'll keep you posted and anybody else if there interested, regarding amaya. 
> but, please it will not be tomorrow .. as the saying goes.

Well, the pointer to the LINUX-ELF binary showed up, and it's running
*right now* Seems reasonably zippy, No uglier than Netscape, but not
as pretty as Arena was. More as I play with it...

	<mike



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