Re: Netscape 4.72 in SuSE 6.4 Message

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:53:38AM +0100, richard [at] sheflug.co.uk wrote:
> There was a file under /tmp which was set with permission for root
> user.  I've changed it so that anyone can access it and use it.  I'm
> sure I shouldn't do that but I can't find out whether it's better to
> do things that way or another.

	I reckon it's safe to do that :)

> What's happened now is that when I click on retrieve mail Netscape
> messenger asks for my password for richard [at] sheflug.co.uk and when I
> type it in and click on the OK button I find that the whole of
> Netscape just crashes out of sight.

	This is a well-known netscape bug. It should be on Suse's
database thingy (you're using suse aren't you?). I think you need to add
some fonts line to your fontpath, but I can't be sure. I think you need
to add support for 100dpi fonts in the fontpath. It *should* be on
suse's database!

	Hth,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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