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: I run Netscape 3.01 from command line and I get this
: 
: netscape: '/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_301' is not an ELF file
: ERROR: Not an ELF file
: Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_301. Ignored.
: Bus error

I'm not certain about the ELF file error, but I believe it may be produced
from the lack of JAVA support in the Linux kernel.  You might want to try
recompiling a new kernel with JAVA support included.

: Netscape runs fine until I go to a site that has a lot of graphics, or
: lots of graphics and a java applet, then it just goes away.  Then I fire
: it back up and the page loads fine.  When it crashes it does not exit with
: an error message, it just goes away.  Anyone got any ideas?
: Thanks.

This was a big discussion on other newsgroups and I found a solution (thanks
to a man who I have since forgotten his name) with the libraries.

  1)  Get a copy of gnumalloc.so and stash it into /lib.  Get gnumalloc.so
      from ftp://cheshire.catt.ncsu.edu/lib/gnumalloc.so

  2)  (I'm sure there's another way to do this more efficiently, but I haven't
      really messed with it).  Move netscape to netscape.bin (or something),
      and write the following script as "netscape":

              #!/bin/bash
              export CLASSPATH="/usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301"
              export LD_PRELOAD="/lib/gnumalloc.so"
              /usr/local/bin/netscape.orig
              # end of script

      or put lines 2 and 3 into /etc/profile (if you use tcsh or csh, put
      "setenv CLASSPATH /usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301 blah blah blah into
      /etc/csh.cshrc).  At any rate, regardless of what you do, make sure
      LD_PRELOAD is defined as the library.

  3)  chmod +x netscape, obviously

  4)  run netscape.  It should work okay now.  I'm not certain as to the
      exact cause of the bus error, but that, as far as I know, is impossible
      with the Intel architecture and is thus a Netscape bug (can we say
      bug number 1 zillion?)

This worked for me.  The java_301 file did not load with mine before because
JAVA support wasn't compiled.  It might be another reason with yours, but I
do not know.

Ryan Younce

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