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This is the netscape communicator pre-release for those who do not mind
updating when their software expires in order to get to try out the latest
features.
Communicator V4.5 beta 1 has a coded expiry of
Thursday, Oct 15 23:59:59 PDT 1998
It integrates:
WWW browser (includes ldap, ftp, html etc)
Mail client
Usenet client
fairly crude www editor
New features in 4.5 since 4.0x:
Smart Browsing
3-Pane Integrated Mail / News Interface
Pinpoint Addressing and Scalable Address Book
Greatly improved IMAP mail performance, network efficiency & interoperability.
Palm Pilot address book, calendar and mail synchronization
New Calendar with simplified user interface
Mail and address import from text, Outlook Express and Eudora
SmartUpdate uninstall
Netscape Quality Feedback System for bug reporting
In addition it appears to be more stable than 4.0x
See "/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms.
Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
chmod 444 fonts.dir
And then exit and restart your X server.
Peter Hawkins <thepish@FreeBSD.org>
Thanks to: ache@freebsd.org (for original port)