Re: Netscape 3.01 off-line

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents...
> now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply
> hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the
> server.

Sounds like the home page is trying to be loaded.  The hang-up is actually
in libc when it tries to look up the hostname to get the ip address.

If you wait a few minutes, it should time-out and netscape should then be
operational.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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