David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de> writes:
> dave@alice>uname -a
> NetBSD alice 1.3.2 NetBSD 1.3.2 (TURBOALICE) #4: Fri Jan 15 23:57:55 MET  
> 1999     root@alice:/ccd/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TURBOALICE i386
> 
> > 2) I find the linux version of Communicator 4.5 is very stable on port-i386
> 
> dave@alice>file /usr/local/netscape/netscape
> /usr/local/netscape/netscape: BSD/OS i386 compact demand paged executable
> 
> Why the linux bin? What do I have to to to run linux binaries?

man compat_linux

There is a package in pkgsrc that will do most of what that man page
describes automatically.

As I note, 4.5 is likely to work better for you than 4.05, and I find
that the Linux version is better supported these days (among other
things, the Java VM has Just In Time and such).

Perry