Index of /~fujiik/mklinux/Packages/dr2.1/shared/netscape

Name	Last modified	Size

Parent Directory		-
netscape-4.05-wrappe..>	1998-04-12 17:36	122K
netscape-4.04-wrappe..>	1998-03-26 18:48	3.3K
netscape-4.03-wrappe..>	1997-11-13 01:00	2.6K
navigator-v405-expor..>	1998-04-12 17:46	5.4M
navigator-v404-expor..>	1998-01-12 14:33	5.3M
communicator-v405-ex..>	1998-04-03 10:28	7.0M
communicator-v404-ex..>	1997-12-14 19:55	6.9M

MkLinux Installation Notes(English)

Descriptions of the Current Directory

Netscape: You Know What It Is, Of Course.

[0] News

Apr 12, 1998: Communicator-v4.05 with Egota's X-resource to make everything Japanese, if kinput2 is v2fix4-2 or later meaning that Honma's FilterEvent patch has been applied.
Mar 26, 1998: Included a patch to show Japanese titles properly in the mail/news header list window.
Dec 16, 1997: The file retrieving dialog list directories and files properly with the Nov. 26 version of the communicator.
Dec 12, 1997: Revised the netscape wrapper to work around a problem with the pervious one: preference windows never pop up.
Dec 1, 1997: Japanese fontLists were set to use Japanese fonts on pull-down bookmarks, etc (c.f. mklinux-jp 5978 by Yamaguchi and mklinux-jp 6019 by Katayama).
Nov 14, 1997: netscape-v4.04 navigator re-retrieved according to (mklinux-jp 5926). With this new binary package you don't have to worry about XmTextField errors.
Nov 12, 1997: netscape-v4.04 navigator for mklinux and a shell wrapper to enable JAVA and Japanese lables on buttons in the browser.

[1] Origin

http://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/WWW/netscape/communicator/4.05/development/english/unix/mklinux/

/navigator_standalone/navigator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

/base_install/communicator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

[2] Installation Procedure

If you want to install the stand-alone navigator, do:

$ tar -zxvf <somewhere>/navigator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

$ su

# less README.install

# ./ns-install

......

...... I used the default settings!

......

or if you want the communicator, do the following instead:

$ tar -zxvf <somewhere>/communicator-v405-export.ppc-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

$ su

# less README.install

# ./ns-install

......

...... I used the default settings!

......

Then you may install the japanization kit:

# tar -zxvf <somewhere>/netscape-4.05-wrapper.tar.gz -C /

Note that the wrapper package contains a shared library called "liblocale.so" which replaces the "setlocale" function in "libc.so" by "_Xsetlocale" in order to allow locales handling 2-byte characters such as Japanese. The "liblocale.so" is exactly the same thing that was used to make HotJava show Japanese web pages.

Now you can try

$ /usr/local/netscape/bin/netscape

Caution:
You have to preinstall the latest version of kinput2 if you are running the navigator with kinput2. See this for installation instructions.

If you want to input Japanese Text with kinput2, you need to install the latest X11R6.3. See this for installation instructions.

[2] Known Problems

I could not succeeded in displaying Japanese bookmarks yet (this problem was solved: see mklinux-jp 5978 by Yamaguchi and 6019 by Katayama).

I could not input Japanes characters into forms yet (this problem was partially solved: see mklinux-jp 7958 by T.Oe and mklinux-jp 7962). To input Japanese Text, you have to use the latest X11R6 (release 1n or later) and the latest kinput2 (v2fix4) with Honma's FilterEvent patch. You also have to do

$ export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"

before invoking Netscape.

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