Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Satoshi Asami
* From: Luke l...@aus.org * linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] You can put it anywhere and symlink to it, like sysinstall does now, but it has to be called /compat (or some other well-known place) because of the implementation. The string /compat/linux has to be hardcoded in

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
* From: Luke l...@aus.org * linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] You can put it anywhere and symlink to it, like sysinstall does now, but it has to be called /compat (or some other well-known place) because of the implementation. The string /compat/linux has to be

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Luke: linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] The standard sysinstall has been making a link into /usr/compat for months if not years :-) revision 1.193 date: 1997/07/16 11:45:48; author: jkh; state: Exp; lines: +5 -1 ln /compat to

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Luke: This is 4.5b1 communicator, and locks up X often enough I dont use it. Beta versions of 4.5 were bad (in that case b2 was far worse than b1) whereas 4.5 release is more or less stable. (it still crashes from time to time but not that often). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD:

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Luke
On 28-Jan-99 Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Luke: linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] The standard sysinstall has been making a link into /usr/compat for months if not years :-) Some people haven't used sysinstall for years : E-Mail: Luke l...@aus.org Sent by

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-28 Thread Luke
On 28-Jan-99 Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Luke: This is 4.5b1 communicator, and locks up X often enough I dont use it. Beta versions of 4.5 were bad (in that case b2 was far worse than b1) whereas 4.5 release is more or less stable. (it still crashes from time to time but not that

Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
OK, just to re-organise something here: Some people are referring to Netscape (Navigator | Communicator) whereas others are referring to Mozilla (from www.mozilla.org) I think this makes a ton of differences. Also, anyone even bothered to file the communicator 4.5 binary? [r...@daemon] (27) #

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 27-Jan-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: OK, just to re-organise something here: Might the old communicator still being tied to a.out? This I can answer - all versions of netscape are aout, (I've just been looking for an elf netscape so that I can throw away my aout libraries

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 27-Jan-99 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On 27-Jan-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Might the old communicator still being tied to a.out? This I can answer - all versions of netscape are aout, (I've just been looking for an elf netscape so that I can throw away my aout libraries

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Luke
Also, anyone even bothered to file the communicator 4.5 binary? Hopefully this helps [4.0-current -DNOSECURE -O2 -pipe] Netscape: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged dynamically linked executable This is 4.5b1 communicator, and locks up X often enough I dont use it. netscape.bin: unknown

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: This I can answer - all versions of netscape are aout, (I've just been looking for an elf netscape so that I can throw away my aout libraries which are being carried around only for netscape nowadays). I wrote a port for Linux Netscape if

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: This I can answer - all versions of netscape are aout, (I've just been looking for an elf netscape so that I can throw away my aout libraries which are being carried around only for netscape

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Luke
I wrote a port for Linux Netscape if anyone wants it. I sent it in but it came back to me with some comments about netscape port proliferation. I tried that one but it wants linux_lib installed on /compat and theres no room. Do you know if its ok to make /compat a link to somewhere else

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Luke wrote: I wrote a port for Linux Netscape if anyone wants it. I sent it in but it came back to me with some comments about netscape port proliferation. I tried that one but it wants linux_lib installed on /compat and theres no room. Do you know if its ok

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:20:32PM -0500, Luke wrote: I tried that one but it wants linux_lib installed on /compat and theres no room. Do you know if its ok to make /compat a link to somewhere else for the linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] I have /compat

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread System administration
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Luke wrote: I tried that one but it wants linux_lib installed on /compat and theres no room. Do you know if its ok to make /compat a link to somewhere else for the linux_lib port. [why does it install into / anyways] Should not harm anything. I have linked

Re: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Jake
Should not harm anything. I have linked /compat/linux to /home/linux (home is on its own filesystem), since my / is quite limited in space. No problems (and I don't really know why it should cause any). h24-64-221-247# ls -al /compat lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 22 05:47 /compat -

Whats VM_STACK (was Re: Netscape | Mozilla)

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:35:09PM -0500, Luke wrote: what is this VM_STACK option? Its some new code to manage autogrow stacks. The existing (old) code made a process stack autogrow. But, its useful to be able to create additional autogrow memory regions to use as thread stacks in

RE: Netscape | Mozilla

1999-01-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Luke wrote: I wrote a port for Linux Netscape if anyone wants it. I sent it in but it came back to me with some comments about netscape port proliferation. I tried that one but it wants linux_lib installed on /compat and theres no room. Do you know if its ok