Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-20 Thread Carlos Sousa
> Seriously, I would actually like to find a killer app to convert > MSIE "Internet Shortcuts" into Netscape bookmark files. IE does There's an excellent little Win32 command-line tool called 'ftbab.exe' (Favourites To Bookmarks And Back) that'll do what you seem to be needing. Can't remember

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-18 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:17:22PM -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | - Original Message - | From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | > Are you looking for anything else in a browser? | | Uh, is this a rhetorical question, or a philosophical one? If there was some feature in particular that wa

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Seven Smith
- Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you looking for anything else in a browser? Uh, is this a rhetorical question, or a philosophical one? ;-) Seriously, I would actually like to find a killer app to convert MSIE "Internet Shortcuts" into Netscape bookmark files.

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:18:33PM -0700, Mark Seven Smith wrote: | - Original Message - | From: "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: "debian user" | Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 AM | Subject: Re: Installed netscape, but how do I star

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-17 Thread Mark Seven Smith
- Original Message - From: "Peter Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian user" Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 8:54 AM Subject: Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it? > Dman wrote: > > -This means that when netscape was compiled i

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-17 Thread Jason Boxman
On Sunday 16 September 2001 11:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide..." books > > to be poor, th

Books (was Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?)

2001-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:52:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide.

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-16 Thread timo
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:10:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I find most of the Norton's, SAMS, "Unleashed", "In 24 Hours", "In 10 > Days", "Maximum...", "...for Dummies", and "Total Idiots Guide..." books > to be poor, though there are the odd exceptions. > > I tend to recommend O'Reilly,

Re: New book [was Installed netscape, but how do I start it?]

2001-09-16 Thread csj
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 22:17, Wendell Cochran wrote: > > ... a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to > >Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was > >on sale, remaindered, I guess not a big seller!) Karsten, I will check > >out the books that you recomm

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-16 Thread Peter Christensen
Dman wrote: -This means that when netscape was compiled it was linked against a -different version of libstdc++ than the one you have right now. There -really isn't a solution since we don't have netscape's sources to -recompile it. OK, I'll give up on trying to use Netscape. (I don't really ca

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:57:57PM -0400, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions! I really am trying to learn the > basics of Linux, a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide > to Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The bo

New book [was Installed netscape, but how do I start it?]

2001-09-15 Thread Wendell Cochran
> ... a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to >Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was >on sale, remaindered, I guess not a big seller!) Karsten, I will check >out the books that you recommended. See also _The Linux Cookbook_ by Michael Stutz (2001

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-15 Thread Richard Hector
Peter Christensen wrote: > > I installed both Linux 2.1 (kernel 2.1.121 shows up in a message at > startup time) and Netscape 4.75 from CDs. Two things: AFAIK Debian 2.1 should have installed kernel 2.0, so it sounds like you may not be using Debian, so this list may not be ideal. Do you know w

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-14 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:57:57PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: | Thanks for all the suggestions! I really am trying to learn the basics | of Linux, a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to | Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was | on sale, rema

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-14 Thread Peter Christensen
Thanks for all the suggestions! I really am trying to learn the basics of Linux, a few weeks ago bought Peter Norton's _Complete Guide to Linux_, but am finding it not too helpful at this point. (The book was on sale, remaindered, I guess not a big seller!) Karsten, I will check out the books th

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-13 Thread James Ramsey
--- Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Ramsey wrote: > > I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > start > troubleshooting this problem. > When I installed > netscape it created the > following directory in /tmp: > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > It

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-13 Thread Wendell Cochran
[ snip ] > I think I just answered my own question! [ snip ] > Peter Christensen Moral: Carefully describing your problem may solve it. The act of writing deters skipping & guessing, aids review, & forces order & logic. That's so even if you don't post the record to the list. It's best to w

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-13 Thread Richard Hector
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > > start troubleshooting this problem. When I installed > > netscape it created the following directory in /tmp: > > > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > > > It was supposed to create a directory called: >

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I am so new to linux that I really don't know how to > start troubleshooting this problem. When I installed > netscape it created the following directory in /tmp: > > communicator-v475.x86-unknown-linux2.2 > > It was supposed to create a directory called: > communicator-v47x.your_unix_platform

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:48:20PM -0400, Peter Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I finally installed Netscape successfully (I think!) and now find that I > don't know how to start it. I changed to the directory where it is > installed -- /usr/local/netscape -- and tried typing "netscape",

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:48:20PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote: | I finally installed Netscape successfully (I think!) and now find that I | don't know how to start it. dpkg -L will list all of the files that the package installed. Using this you can find where netscape is. | I changed to

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread Peter Christensen
James Ramsey wrote: > > You should be able to start Netscape at the command > line by entering "netscape". If that doesn't work, > start troubleshooting, because something wrong has > happened. > I guess something has gone wrong, because I am not logged in as root, and when I am in xterm and type

Re: Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread James Ramsey
--- Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally installed Netscape successfully (I think!) > and now find that I > don't know how to start it. I changed to the > directory where it is > installed -- /usr/local/netscape -- and tried typing > "netscape", "run > netscape", and "start ne

Installed netscape, but how do I start it?

2001-09-12 Thread Peter Christensen
I finally installed Netscape successfully (I think!) and now find that I don't know how to start it. I changed to the directory where it is installed -- /usr/local/netscape -- and tried typing "netscape", "run netscape", and "start netscape". No result. What is the correct way to start it? Than