On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, John Miskinis wrote: > That makes sense, I can see where /dev/modem is useful once things > are working. I did remember seeing a note somewhere (I've been > up all night reading stuff, I forget where) where they discouraged > the use of /dev/modem, and /dev/mouse however!
A Linux system running on a laptop has to cope with serial ports suddenly aparing and disaparing and not necesarely connectetd to the same /dev/ttyS? port. So this is for me the only way to handle this. This is a little bit different situation from a 'normal' PC (never the less I don't know the reasons, why this the use of /dev/modem and /dev/mouse is discouraged there - but this is only due to I've not read about this, yet) > I'm still accepting recommendations for slink-compatible browsers. > I just grabbed "Mosaic" but it is complaining about the lack of > "libXt.so.6". And the darn link is there (to libXt.so.6.0) on my > system. This might be related to a warning I get when running > ldconfig, as I have pending configurations of libwraster stuff from > a failed attempt of installing dev versions of things without the > required non-dev versions. (Another story, yet to be resumed). I've use netscape 4.7 found in ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.netscape.com/communicator/english/4.7/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/ dwonlad size range from 11MB (navigator standalone) to 20MB (proffessional edition). I've untard the archive, used ns-install (comming with the tar-ball) to install it in /usr/local/netscape47, made an symlink from /usr/local/netscape to this directory and final a symlink from /usr/local/bin/netscape to /usr/local/netscape/netscape ... that works fine for me. I've never tried to use the debian packages to install netscape, so I can't say anything about them. Martin -- Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
