michael wrote:
>
> "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> >
> > Christopher Jahn wrote:
> > >
> > > And it came to pass that Richard Blair wrote:
> > >
> > > >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.
> >
> > ON MAC SYSTEMS and COULD on other systems:
> >
> > Actually Netscape 6 Does affect Communicator and will cause corruption
> > of Communicator.
> >
> > In order to for it not to do so you must install N6 on a separate hard Drive.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> No. no, no! I have NS 4.75, NS 6.01, and Mozilla 0.8 all installed on
> my Win 95 system; I even run NS 6.01 (or M 0.8) at the same time as I
> run NS 4.75 - Often, even...... No problems with any one of them
> interacting in any way with the others - except for NS 6.01 with M 0.8,
> which is expected, since they use the same profile folders.
well if widows allow all of them to works that's all fine. But the fact
is on Mac Platform it does and will.
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