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Description

Yawn is Yet Another Wrapper for Netscape.

It is aimed at large sites....but
is a single file
keeps each netscape in it's install directory
uses the app default file in it's install directory AND...
works around installations of App. Default files (ignores them and uses the App. Def. fil in the Netscape Directory).
gives the right number of arguments to netscape. This was a simple thing that threw netscape.
allows selection of things based on hostname or architecture...e.g.
allows enforcing CPU limits (stops those runaway netscapes from eating computeserver power), and nice limits (yes I have used that!).
supports all known plugins
doesn't touch the CLASSPATH!

Using

There are no options, only environment settings.

Distribution

Free, under a GNU public licence

Download

The latest version can obtained here yawn latest version

Platforms

All

Netscape Version Compatibility

All Navigator and Communicator versions up to 4.6 (hundreds of users tested on at least 3.0-4.6)

Configuration

various limits etc can be set for machine name, type of machine....

# a wrapper for running netscape
# FLAGS:        all flags go to netscape
# ENVIRONMENT:  [XUSERFILESEARCHPATH] [NPX_PLUGIN_PATH minus $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins]
# INSTALL TIPS: ln -s Netscape.ad Netscape, on large linux screens >~ 1kx1k
#               edit the MOZILLA_HOME/Netscape.ad file to use 100dpi
# USER TIPS:    use a proxy, set file cache to 0, remove the filecache dir
#               contents but not the directory, only turn java on
#               you might need NPX_PRELOAD=ndvi.so but then it will make plugin-list generation
#               hard
# BUGS:         NPX_PRELOAD will use last found occurrence on path

# TODO:         users having complete control over the NPX_PLUGIN_PATH but without needing to know $MOZILLA_HOME, something like this in their resources:
#setenv NPX_PLUGIN_PATH '$MOZILLA_HOME/plugins:''$MOZILLA_HOME/../netscape.plugins/plugins'

# netscape installation specific things
# directory where netscape directory tree is
MOZILLA_HOME='/usr/local/netscape4.6'
export MOZILLA_HOME
# netscape filename in that directory
NETSCAPEBIN=netscape
# where the java bits are (not for netscape 4 on)
#CLASSPATH="$MOZILLA_HOME"'/java/classes'
#export CLASSPATH
# some plugins cause netscape to crash when unloaded - so don't unload
# one item in NPX_PLUGIN_PATH that must be preloaded
#NPX_PRELOAD=ndvi.so

Technical

Environment

NPX_PRELOAD is a single file to be LD_PRELOAD ed safely!
The user's NPX_PLUGIN_PATH is appended to netscape default plugin directory so users don't have to. This is useful when coping with many different versions in time or space!

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