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kenm AT surfbest.net wrote:
>
> Running "ldd netscape" yielded "statically linked (ELF)", 

That's strange.  On my copy of BL1, 'file netscape' yields:
--------------------------------------------------------------
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically 
linked, stripped
--------------------------------------------------------------

And 'ldd netscape' yields:
--------------------------------------------------------
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40009000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40047000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4004f000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40063000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40074000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40083000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4008d000)
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4011f000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40122000)
--------------------------------------------------------

> but trying to run it produced the error message 
> "Cannot open libXt.so.1"

As you can see above, that is one of the libraries it uses.

> An attempt to run the same version under BL2 gave me an 
> error message about not being able to open libc5 

It definitely needs libc5, so Netscape 3.04 won't run on BL2 
(unless you backload libc5 into BL2).

> though "ldd" had again asserted that netscape was statically
> linked.  

I've just copied Netscape 3.04 into my version of BL2 and 
'file netscape' and 'ldd netscape' give the same results 
as in BL1.

And I've just copied Netscape 3.04 into my version of BL3 and
'file netscape' and 'ldd netscape' give the same results as
in BL1 and BL2.

> Obviously, that isn't true, but why does "ldd" say it is 
> and how can one test a binary file more accurately?

Something appears to be wrong with ldd or your netscape binary.
Are you sure you've got the actual netscape binary, not some
installation file?

Cheers,
Steven