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128 bit netscape

From: salu@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Saul Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re:  Getting 128bit, strongly encrypted, netscape
Date: 15 Dec 1999 04:02:59 GMT
Message-ID: <8373tj$57b4@biko.cc.rochester.edu> 
Summary: Problem solved!

In an earlier note, i bemoaned my inability to obtain this, sometimes
necessary, utility, that is supposed to be available free to US and Canadian
citizens--and is easily obtainable by Windows and Linux users, by simply
downl;oading the binaries from the officail netscape site.  These versions are
supported, also, by Netscape.

There is an (unsupported) SCO version.  i tried it.  It didn't work--complained
that "strong encryption wasn't licensed".

This raised my dander:  Sounds like SCO found something else to "license".  I
refused to pay, on principle!

The answer:  I downloaded the current SCO supported linux emulator, lxrun, from
the most recent skunkware distribution.  Then i downloaded the most recent,
linux2.0 Communicator r4.7 from the official Netscape site, and voila!  It
worked perfectly!  (Much better than the older version, that is not strongly
encrypted, that is available from SCO--for free, also.)  

Being delighted with Steven Ginzburg's latest work on this extremely useful
package (which I have found essential in the past, as well, in order to run
Mathematica, which i need), I've downloaded and compiled his latest
experimental binaries, installing the new RedHat 6.1 linux2.0 libraries,
roughly as he suggested.  (The only difference:  I'm too cheap to shell out $5
for a RedHat CD, so I downloaded what's needed from that CD from RedHat).

Works perfectly!  I feel that i now have an OpenServer/Linux RedHAT/UnixWare
(using the BCM module from SCO)/Windows (using Merge)/DOS (using Merge) system.
Note:  I suspect that the best of these is the linux.

Let's hope that SCO integrates Steven's linux emulation into the shared C
library, much as they've done in setting up the BCM (for running, e.g.,
UnixWare binaries under OpenServer).

And thanks, very much, Steven, for maintaining and developing the linux emulator
--and for being so patient with my many questions!

Sincerely yours,

Saul Lubkin

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