Subject: Re: Cryptozilla vailable
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/25/1998 23:45:32
Hello Paul!

In message <uDjY1Ancm@desktop-nc187.client.nc.com>
          "pwain@nc.com" <pwain@nc.com> wrote:

> This is probably because you dont have an XKeySym.db file and lesstiff uses
> one
> much like say motif did. That at least is my guess. Either that or there are
> some
> erroneous entries in the Netscape.ad file.

But neither is distributed with the binary, because it's not put into the
package by the NetBSD package system either. I was wondering if this was
correct but Cryptozilla never complains about this.

> The mail sources should be out in a day or two. However the mail db layer is
> still
> not being released which will probably mean it takes a week or two for a gdb
> layer
> to come on line (looking at the mail and news code for NS4 on my HD). So dont
> expect a working mail/news component for a few more weeks, possibly a month
> or
> two if you dont want to lose mail to a bug in the mail layer :)

Sounds good, although I always preferred to have things in different binaries
so I could choose the programs I liked most. And I never liked the mail and
news parts of Netscape some versions ago.

> Well of course there is an Arm32 version of the Oracle Video Server plug I
> would guess that that is next to useless really :) However there are some
> plugins out there in source format and since all they are is really just a 
> shared library they should port.

But somebody would need to compile them first, I guess. ;-)
Well, let's get the core program running properly first. I never felt a
pressing need to install a plugin anyway. The only one that springs to mind is
an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
-- 
So long, Markus

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