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Netscape 2.0 (X11)
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IMPORTANT! Before going any further, please
read and accept the terms in the file LICENSE.
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Release notes for this version of Netscape are available online. After
starting the program, select "Release Notes" from the "Help" menu.
This will take you to the URL
http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/unix-2.0.html
which lists new features and known problems of this release.
To submit bugs or other feedback, use the "How To Give Feedback" option, also
on the "Help" menu, which will take you to the URL
http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/auto_bug.cgi
If for some reason you cannot submit feedback using that form, you may send
email to x_cbug@netscape.com. Please be as specific as possible about the
version of Netscape you are using, and the hardware and version of the OS.
If possible, include a test case for the problem, including a URL.
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Configuration Notes for Netscape 2.0
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Configuration Files:
With release 2.0 of the Netscape Navigator, a new directory
is created in which configuration files are placed. This
directory is called `$HOME/.netscape'. Existing 1.1 configuration
information is copied into this directory upon first execution
of Netscape. A dialog is presented asking whether or not you
would like to automatically delete your 1.1 files.
If you do not choose to delete the old files, then they will
continue to be used by older versions of Netscape, but version
2.0 and newer will never touch them.
If you have a file or directory in $HOME called .netscape,
you should rename it prior to running version 2.0.
If you don't, it will be renamed for you, to `.netscape.BAK'.
Mail:
Please see the Release Notes for important information on
configuring and using Netscape Mail. Knowing how to
configure and use Netscape Mail will prevent you from
losing mail messages.
Java Applet Support:
Java Applet support is available for SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.3,
Solaris 2.4, HPUX, IRIX and Linux and OSF1.
To run Java applets with the Java-enabled version, the
Navigator needs to be able to load Java class files from a file
called moz2_0.zip. This file is included in the distribution,
but must be moved to any of these directories:
The current directory
/usr/local/netscape/java/classes
/usr/local/lib/netscape
$HOME/.netscape
If you were running Java with an earlier beta version of the
Netscape Navigator, you need to replace your old moz2_0.car file
or old moz2_0.zip file with the new moz2_0.zip file supplied in
this distribution.
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Installation Instructions
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Installation of Netscape is very simple: unpack the tar file, and run
the resultant executable. But there are, of course, a few exceptions...
AIX: Netscape requires AIX 3.2.5 with the X11R5 and Motif 1.2 libraries.
If you are running an older version of the operating system, you
will get undefined symbols at run-time; unfortunately, the only
solution is to upgrade to a more recent version of the OS.
SunOS 4.1: The SunOS 4.1 package comes with two executables: netscape and
netscape_dns. This is because Suns use two different,
incompatible methods of resolving host names (Domain Name Service,
and Network Information Service, formerly known as Yellow Pages.)
A given site only need install one of these executables.
It is usually possible to configure your YP/NIS server to consult
a DNS server for resolution of hosts not in the YP maps. Consult
your system administrator for details.
Solaris 2.4:
The Solaris 2.4 Navigator is dynamically linked with the X and
Motif libraries. If the Motif dynamic libraries are not
properly installed, the Navigator will exit with this error:
ld.so.1: netscape: fatal: libXm.so.3: can't open file: errno=2
Installing Motif dynamic libraries will get the navigator
working. If you cannot install the Motif libraries, you
can run the Navigator for Solaris 2.3 on your Solaris 2.4
machine.
SunOS 4.1, Linux, and BSDI:
These distributions also includes a directory called "nls".
This directory is a standard part of the MIT X11R5 distribution,
but is not included with X11R4- or X11R6-based systems (such as
OpenWindows 3.0 or earlier, and XFree86 3.1 or later.)
On these systems, Netscape has been linked against X11R5 (because
Motif 1.2.4 has some bad bugs in conjunction with with X11R6.)
Unfortunately, X11R5 has one rather serious bug, which is that if
this "nls" directory does not exist, the program will dump core
any time you try to copy or paste to or from a text field!
So, if you don't have the "nls" directory on your system, you will
need to install it first. Here is where Netscape looks for it
(these default pathnames are hardcoded into the executable):
SunOS 4.1: /usr/lib/X11/nls/
Linux: /usr/X386/lib/X11/nls/
BSDI: /usr/X11/lib/X11/nls/
If you choose not to create the directory there, then you must
set the $XNLSPATH environment variable to the directory where you
did install it.
NetBSD, FreeBSD:
We have been told (but have not verified) that the BSDI binaries
will work on x86 systems running NetBSD 1.0 or FreeBSD 2.0 (but
not FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.)
* Included with all distributions is a file called XKeysymDB. Without this
file, many warnings about "unknown keysyms" will be generated when the
program starts up, and most keyboard equivalents won't work. This is a
general problem with running Motif programs on systems not configured for
Motif, and so will be necessary on most Sun systems.
This file is included with all packages because some systems have an older
version of this file, so you may still get some warnings. The XKeysymDB
file normally goes in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or /usr/openwin/lib/XKeysymDB,
but you can override that with $XKEYSYMDB.
* Also included with all distributions is a file called Netscape.ad, which
lists the default resources which are built in to the program. It is
not necessary to install this; it is provided for informational purposes.
See the comment at the top of the file for more information.
* If you get a "Cannot locate host" dialog at startup, this is a sign of
problems related to name resolution. If you're on a Sun, see the comments
above about the two executables.
* If you get a "Cannot connect to host" dialog at startup, it could mean that
you are behind a firewall, and need to tell Netscape about your SOCKS
or proxy server. See Options Menu -> Network... -> Proxies,
or consult your system administrator.
* Please read the release notes under "Help -> Release Notes". This
document is updated as problems are found, so please check it before
reporting a bug.
* To unpack a compressed tar file into the current directory, use some
variation of the following command:
zcat the-file.tar.Z | tar -vxf -
* The files ending with ".gz" contain the exact same data, but are
smaller because they are compressed with `gzip' rather than
`compress'. If you have gzip on your system, you can unpack
these files with
gzip -dc the-file.tar.gz | tar -vxf -
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
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