On May 6,  6:42pm, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Subject: Re: emacs, perl and display
> olly@muscat.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > In article <E0wOiZv-0005Bi-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, you wrote:
> > >Laurent DOMISSE wrote:
> > >> I have Perl5.003 but it crash when running my own script (none
> > >> to be found working !)....translation error occuring with a
> > >> core dump.
> > >
> > >What is the script? (ie check first the perl is OK)
> >
> > Whatever the script is, perl shouldn't dump core -- it should report a
> > syntax error (usually several lines after the actual problem).
>
> Good point. Maybe the script says
> #!/usr/bin/perl (as per Linux) rather than
> #!/usr/local/perl
> and maybe it is a cgi script and apache dumps core... (Scenario though
> unlikely is possible! Then again, we don't know what the script is...)
>
> > >> Seems to crash quite often when using table option.
> > >> Is there any hope to see Netscape browser ???
> > >
> > ><aol>Me too</aol>
> >
> > Since Netscape ship prebuilt binaries, I doubt there's much hope, as
riscbsd
> > is unlikely to be much of a potential market for them.  But you don't lose
much
> > by asking them.
>
> The Me too came from use of Mosaic. Re Netscape, is it worth going
> down the use of the compatibility options and execute say an SRV4
> solaris binary instead?

Well, in theory we could emulate Solaris if Sun were ever to release Solaris
for an ARM platform. Emulating a Sparc processor as well is rather more of a
tall order.

Cheers

Rob