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Re: Install communicator 4.5

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From: al
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:00
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Louis Hissink wrote in message <3693167D.D65404F8@bigpond.com>...
>JerryWong wrote:
>>In the installation readme,
>> it says " The recommended way to install this software is to use
>> "ns-install", a relatively simple Bourne shell script that will properly
>> extract and install all the files now present in this release. I don't
know
>> how to run the "ns-install", do you know?

>
>I discovered that netscape communicator 4.08 is the preferred browser for
>linux as suggested by Netscape.  I have installed 4.5, ok, but now start
>wondering what the difference between 4.5 and 4.08 is.  4.5 seems not to be
>officially supported. ?
>
>louis
>


4.08 still seems to have a few bugs.had a lot of problems after installing
netscape 4.08 with segment faults and causing crashes and bad blocks on the
hard drive.

to install netscape cd to where you uncompressed it then at the shell prompt
type ns-install
ie

# ns-install
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Date: 1999/01/09
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