Re: [Sheflug] Weird world of newbies...

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

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:57:00PM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hello all...
> 
> Well, I think I've got Fetchmail running (at last), though it's a tad
> unreliable - I think that's down to my system and not Fetchmail
> though.  But I have one or two other queries:

	Well done! I have problems with fetchmail as well (mainly, it
crashes...), but it's survivable.

> 2)  How the devil do you install the beta Netscape 6?  I know, I know, but
> you forget:  I'm the arch-newbie who keeps ALL of your feet on the
> ground.  There's no docs at the website, nor attached with it, and I've

	NS 6 looks just like mozilla. You can untar the tarball, and go
into the directory it creates. You then run the netscape script from
there, and that takes care of adding all the library paths and things.
So, I guess it looks a bit like
tar -zxvf netscrape-something_or_other.tar.gz
cd netscape-something_or_other
./netscape

> tried supplanting it into my Netscape directory; the whole thing was a
> complete mess and I was forced to re-install Netscape 4.61 - though, of
> course, I'm using Lynx more and more these days etc etc.

	NS 6.0 can be run with other versions, and it doesn't need an
installation, AFAIK. However, it's good to see that you're being
converted to lynx as well. Someday, we'll take over the world... X-)

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