Netscape fails to show text files.

[Tapio Lehtonen <tale@iki.fi>]

Hello,

Somehow I have got my Netscape so that it fails to show text files. I
have tried to change in preferences the application, it is now view
(see below what view is on my system), but I have tried less and ae
also. 

$ which view
/usr/bin/view
tale@dilbert ~/Work/Debian-doc/Tutorial
$ ls -l /usr/bin/view
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Mar 26  1998 /usr/bin/view -> /etc/alternatives/vie  
w
tale@dilbert ~/Work/Debian-doc/Tutorial
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/view
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           13 Jan 11 23:21 /etc/alternatives/view -> /usr/bin/les  
s
tale@dilbert ~/Work/Debian-doc/Tutorial
$

Those files that are html or some other type that Netscape figures
out, are shown OK, but ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/README.non-US
for example is not. I have checked with chimera2, it can show these
problem files. Netscape pops ups a dialog box with title

Netscape: subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr)
  then the beginning of the text in the file and:
<<stderr diagnostics have been truncated >>

I don't understand what Netscape is doing, and have failed to correct
this. Even tried different Netscape versions, but looks like my
configuration is in error so changing versions has no effect. 

What to do?

-- 
Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI