Re: Importing mutt aliases into Netscape 7

2003-10-09 Thread joel
Thanks. I exported my current address book to ldif, studied that format, then ran this script against my mutt aliases, and it actually worked. I attach it here in case anyone would fine it useful. This is quick and dirty, YMMV. s/alias /dn: cn\=/ s//,mail\=/ s/// s/ ,/,/ s/$/\nobjectclass:

Importing mutt aliases into Netscape 7

2003-10-08 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone know of a way to import addresses from a text file like mutt aliases into a more convoluted file like the abook of mozilla? Or,failing that, is there a simple explanation somewhere of the abook data format? Thanks, Joel ___ Linux-users

Re: Importing mutt aliases into Netscape 7

2003-10-08 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Joel Hammer: Does anyone know of a way to import addresses from a text file like mutt aliases into a more convoluted file like the abook of mozilla? Or,failing that, is there a simple explanation somewhere of the abook data format? http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/index.html Kurt

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-26 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:00:50 -0700 begin Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 08:04 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: [snip] I studied a little and see that gdk is a piece of gtk+, so this should be OK. But I'll bet dollars to donuts that Netscape is

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-26 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 26 September 2002 03:54 am,David A. Bandel wrote: snip Go to the directory w/ N7 and run: ldd netscape make sure you have exactly the library names it's looking for (symlinks may be missing, if so, put them in). if all's well with ldd above, try: strace netscape When NS7

netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd rather be sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Joel Hammer
I am using netscape 7 on my caldera 2.4 box, with an upgraded kernel and all. It works fine. What errors are you getting? Joel On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:34:59AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:34:59 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks Here, on COL 3.1.1 workstation. Federico Voges Socio gerente Intrasoft Malabia 2137 14 A (1425) Buenos Aires

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
dl last night seems to work ok -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
I've goten Mozilla 1.0 1.1 to work under Caldera Redhat. I have no need nor desire to touch Netscape. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks Works like a champ on RH 7.3. I've been using it since it was beta and am quite happy with it. Do you have a problem or just surveying? -- Andrew Mathews

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
Thanks all on netscape 7 feedback. I'll try again. I think I got some conflict between my old ~/.mozilla from 6.2 and 7. Trying to keep all versions so I need to do some cleanup/backup first. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd rather be sailing

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:39 am,Net Llama! wrote: I've goten Mozilla 1.0 1.1 to work under Caldera Redhat. I have no need nor desire to touch Netscape. I was tempted to follow the SxS and put in mozilla. I need a specific TIFF viewer for looking at images from the US patent office

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:39 am,Net Llama! wrote: I've goten Mozilla 1.0 1.1 to work under Caldera Redhat. I have no need nor desire to touch Netscape. I was tempted to follow the SxS and put in mozilla. I need a specific TIFF viewer for

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks It works fine on my pristine Caldera eDesk 2.4 as well as Libranet 2.7 Debian (2.4.19 kernel/KDE 3.0.3). It installed from the $3 CD I got from Netscape flawlessly. BTW Netscape 4.7X won't

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 9/25/2002 10:53 AM, someone claiming to be Leon A. Goldstein wrote: snip BTW Netscape 4.7X won't scroll in KDE 3. There is a work-around that restores scrolling in Libranet 2.7, but not in SuSE 8. IIRC, you need to have the NumLock off for scroll to work in NS4.7x

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks Got it running on SuSE 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1; although it tends to lock up on Mandrake due to some conflict with the bundled mozilla. Had a little trouble at first, but solved problem

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
! wrote: I've goten Mozilla 1.0 1.1 to work under Caldera Redhat. I have no need nor desire to touch Netscape. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks ___ Linux

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Tim Wunder wrote: BTW Netscape 4.7X won't scroll in KDE 3. There is a work-around that restores scrolling in Libranet 2.7, but not in SuSE 8. IIRC, you need to have the NumLock off for scroll to work in NS4.7x That's not the problem. KDE 3 does not read .Xresources wherein abides

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:32 pm, Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine incorporated into it; unless you default load to a browser like netscape, with all its advertising cruft, or www.google or something like it. By itself it is totally useless

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 9/25/2002 12:32 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine incorporated into it; unless you default load to a browser like netscape, with all its advertising cruft, or www.google or something like it. By itself it is totally

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Has anybody gotten netscape 7 to work and if so, on what distro? Thanks ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/25/2002 12:32 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine incorporated into it; unless you default load to a browser like netscape, with all its advertising cruft, or www.google or something like it. By

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine For starters, i'm not even sure you're right about this. But even if you are, why should a web browser have a search engine integrated into it? Does the word bloat mean

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote: Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine For starters, i'm not even sure you're right about this. But even if you are, why should a web browser have a search engine integrated

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Aaron Grewell
To state the obvious, I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding here. If I understand Lee correctly, he's complaining that when you type stuff in the location bar of Mozilla and press Enter it tries to load www.stuff you typed.com and gives an error. Netscape and IE both send the stuff you

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 9/25/2002 3:02 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On 9/25/2002 12:32 PM, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine incorporated into it; unless you default load to a browser like netscape, with all its

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 9/25/2002 3:24 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: snip ... What is so difficult about pointing your browser to http://google.com ? Nothing, but it sure is easier to type search terms in the URL bar, press the down arrow, then hit enter. Usually, If I want to use Moz for a

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:45:49 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/2002 3:24 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: snip ... What is so difficult about pointing your browser to http://google.com ? Nothing, but it sure is easier to type search terms in the URL bar,

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wunder
On 9/25/2002 4:17 PM, someone claiming to be Vern W Heesch wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:45:49 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/2002 3:24 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: snip ... What is so difficult about pointing your browser to http://google.com ?

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
Allright gang, here's what I get. a) I ran the off-line installer so that I could re-install at my leisure if I had a problem (which I did with the on-line installer, but same as below). b) I also have netscape 6.2 which I set aside (renamed the directories) so I would have no conflict. I

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Snip What is so difficult about pointing your browser to http://google.com ? Once you go to an external browser you're running netscape anyway. Not to mention the time lost accessing google then search.I assume you

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Tony Alfrey wrote: Allright gang, here's what I get. a) I ran the off-line installer so that I could re-install at my leisure if I had a problem (which I did with the on-line installer, but same as below). b) I also have netscape 6.2 which I set aside (renamed the directories) so I

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Lee
I didn't rename anything only created a dir for netscape7 in my home directory. If the thing is installed try to order it up from the command line with /netscape/netscape. or as /usr/local/nerscape/netscape. You might want to run an ls on /usr/local/netscape/* to see if it's there. Tony

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:48 pm,Lee wrote: I didn't rename anything only created a dir for netscape7 in my home directory. If the thing is installed try to order it up from the command line with /netscape/netscape. or as /usr/local/nerscape/netscape. You might want to run an ls on

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:50 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Don't know if this will help, but NS7 needs to have the variable changed from LANG=en_US.iso885915 to LANG=en_US when run from a shell. Otherwise, it never starts. where?? As to the libgkgfx.so problem, I have two. snip

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:50 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Don't know if this will help, but NS7 needs to have the variable changed from LANG=en_US.iso885915 to LANG=en_US when run from a shell. Otherwise, it never starts. where?? Run the env command to

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 02:32 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 01:50 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Don't know if this will help, but NS7 needs to have the variable changed from LANG=en_US.iso885915 to LANG=en_US when run from a shell.

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
OK, my netscape 7 saga continues to everyone's great (I'm sure) interest. Here's what /var/log/messages says when I try to start my new netscape7 after installation: Sep 25 15:26:48 noname modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Now I'm not competent on this module stuff. Do I need

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Collins
On 25 Sep 2002 12:35:28 -0700 Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To state the obvious, I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding here. If I understand Lee correctly, he's complaining that when you type stuff in the location bar of Mozilla and press Enter it tries to loadwww.stuff you

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:32 pm,Tony Alfrey wrote: OK, my netscape 7 saga continues to everyone's great (I'm sure) interest. Here's what /var/log/messages says when I try to start my new netscape7 after installation: Sep 25 15:26:48 noname modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Tony Alfrey wrote: snip Yeah, that's what I thought. LANG not set to start with. After setting as above, I get Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library for either language selection. But still 6.2 does not mind and starts anyway, 7 is still stuck. 7 is stuck where the

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Vern W Heesch
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:16:41 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/2002 4:17 PM, someone claiming to be Vern W Heesch wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:45:49 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/2002 3:24 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: snip ...

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:13 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Okay, what are the perms on your ~/.mozilla dir? rwxr-xr-x Have you tried moving it to ~/.oldzilla and letting NS recreate it? Exactly. N7 makes the directory ~/.mozilla but doesn't put much in it, certainly not even the

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:13 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Okay, what are the perms on your ~/.mozilla dir? rwxr-xr-x Hmm... mine is: ls -al /home/andy/| grep .mozilla drwxrwxr-x3 andy andy 50 Sep 22 07:20 .mozilla There's no write perm on

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:42 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: snip Try a chmod 775 ~/.mozilla. Did that. Nothing yet. snip What gdk packages do you have? well, we have libgdk-1.2.so.0 libgdk.so.1.0.5 and related files. gdk-pixbuf-0.14.0-8 gdk-pixbuf-gnome-0.14.0-8

Re: netscape 7

2002-09-25 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 08:04 pm,Andrew Mathews wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: snip where is this stuff on your box?? BTW, I put N7 on my SuSE partition and it installed and ran without even thinking about it. So I'm not TOTALLY stupid. Now I just need to figure out what my

Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo
Hi, I'm using Netscape 7 on Mandrake 8.1. I can receive mail from pop and imap but I cannot send. The compose windows just get trying forever. My smtp is netscape : smtp.netscape.net Afeter trying a lot of things I ran: -- [chucho

Re: Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread Andrew Mathews
Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote: Hi, I'm using Netscape 7 on Mandrake 8.1. I can receive mail from pop and imap but I cannot send. The compose windows just get trying forever. My smtp is netscape : smtp.netscape.net snip Unless your ISP is running an open relay mail server you

Re: Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread James McDonald
Unless your ISP is running an open relay mail server you need to specify their mail server for your outbound mail, not netscape's. Yep and running an open relay is the same as saying Welcome spammers a CEO of a company told the IT dept to open up the internet connected exchange box so