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Keep the NS 4 series as lowest common denominator. There are banks here |
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in Oz that test for NS 4 series in their code. Unfortuately, net |
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banking is perhaps an "essential" service for many people, so keep NS4 |
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for a year or so yet. |
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Is it possible for someone to enter "emerge netscape" and a prompt come |
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back "do you want 4, 6 or both?" |
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BillK |
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On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 04:19, Terje Kvernes wrote: |
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> Jim Nutt <jim@×××××.org> writes: |
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> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:40:39 -0700 |
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> > antitux@××××××××.com (John Dee) wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > mozilla is a whole different beast. I *COULD* do that for you guys |
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> > > too, if you wanted. the thing I want to essentially do is shitcan |
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> > > 4.x and get 6.x in there in it's place. |
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> > Alas, as Avi has pointed out in another message, that is currently |
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> > practical as some banks and other sites are brain dead still and |
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> > won't work with netscape 6 (or mozilla for that matter). So, 4.x |
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> > still has to stick around for that reason. |
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> really? whow. that's impressive. change banks. (yes, I know |
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> people who have done this because said bank wasn't usable under |
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> *nix) |
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> anyhow, I think Dees point here is simple "emerge netscape" would |
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> get netscape6, and you'd have to do "emerge <=netscape5" or so to |
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> get netscape-pre-6. and honestly, I think this is a good idea. |
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> -- |
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> Terje |
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