And it came to pass that Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
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>Christopher Jahn wrote:
>>
>> And it came to pass that Richard Blair wrote:
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>> >So far I have seen very little reasoned arguments in
>> >favour of actually downloading 24Mb, to try out n6.
>> >
>>
>> BTW - Netscape 6 is NOT an upgrade - it's completely new
>> code, and bears no relation to Communicator. by default, it
>> installs in a seperate directory, and will not affect your
>> Communicator intallation.
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> ON MAC SYSTEMS and COULD on other systems:
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>Actually Netscape 6 Does affect Communicator and will cause
>corruption of Communicator.
>
Not in Windows. And I have not heard these problems with other
OS.
Netscape 6 does NOT corrupt Communicator; they share no files
or resources. I have downloaded and used every version of N6
from PR1, and never had issues with Communicator. Neither have
there been issues with Mozilla.
>In order to for it not to do so you must install N6 on a
>separate hard Drive.
>
Nonsense. I only have one HDD.
>If N6 Communicator resides on same hard drive, all
>Communicator file types and Icons will be updated to Netscape
>6 icons. Also if you accidentally open Communicator and N6 at
>the same time. N6 causes corruption of Communicator. You will
>have to reinstall Communicator.
More nonsense - I run them concurrently ALL THE TIME. And
Communicator is still fine, and my associations are still what I
set them to be. I have even had Mozilla running at the same
time as N6 and NC4.75
And I've had one or the other of them crash with the other of
them running - not only did they not corrupt the other, the
other didn't have any problems AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH.
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>Symptoms of the Corruption is that Communicator will not open
>and quit with type - 3 errors upon starting to open.
>
>Netscape is aware of this and does not know of a solution on
>the work around of installing on a separate drive.
>
Phil, you must have the worst system installations ever. N6 is
buggy and incomplete, but I have not heard a single
substantiated case like you describe.
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