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russ loroville wrote:
> 
> I found a netscape.tgz(4.0) package for basiclinux1.8. 
> Do you think it will work for BL2.02? 

No.  BL2 uses glibc2.  BL1 uses libc5.

> www.maxtux.co.uk/dist/basiclinux/1.8/slackware_3.5/slakware/xap1

AFAIK that is just a mirror of Slackware 3.5.

> It is 11mb 

So is the netscape.tgz at the other Slack35 mirrors.

> and I believe it is 4.0?

It is debatable whether Netscape 4 is better than Netscape 3.

> The one at the Slakeware site is 16.7mb.

That's the Slack71 version.  It uses glibc2.

Cheers,
Steven