This is the netscape communicator pre-release for those who do not mind updating when their software expires in order to get to try out the latest features. Communicator V4.5 beta 1 has a coded expiry of Thursday, Oct 15 23:59:59 PDT 1998 It integrates: WWW browser (includes ldap, ftp, html etc) Mail client Usenet client fairly crude www editor New features in 4.5 since 4.0x: Smart Browsing 3-Pane Integrated Mail / News Interface Pinpoint Addressing and Scalable Address Book Greatly improved IMAP mail performance, network efficiency & interoperability. Palm Pilot address book, calendar and mail synchronization New Calendar with simplified user interface Mail and address import from text, Outlook Express and Eudora SmartUpdate uninstall Netscape Quality Feedback System for bug reporting In addition it appears to be more stable than 4.0x See "/usr/local/lib/netscape/LICENSE" for the licensing terms. Note: If Java applets fail to display. Type this as root: cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir chmod 444 fonts.dir And then exit and restart your X server. Peter Hawkins Thanks to: ache@freebsd.org (for original port)