Some senseless babbling from Stewart Buckingham to Mike Ruskai
on 11-21-99  17:16 about Communicator Fatal Error...

 SB> Hi Mike,
 
 >> I used the utility called Service Center to view what software is
 >> registered in my INI file and it lists a copy of Netscape. Maybe that
 >> is pointing to the older Netscape V2.02 which I still have on disk too?
 >> How do I tell? The strange thing is I've been using V4.04 without any
 >> known problems up until the point I started receiving this error
 >> message.
 
 > Run the REXX program I sent with the correct directory.  If the entry
 > already exists, it won't matter.  If it doesn't, then it'll be added.

 SB> I run the REXX script. It gave me a message that "Netscape INI entry
 SB> successfully added". It didn't help though. I still get the error
 SB> message.. "Unable to parse OS2PREF.JS. Exiting" when Communicator is
 SB> loading. I get the same message (as you would have seen from a later
 SB> message) when trying to load Java 1.1.8 Install.exe. Does that provide
 SB> any additional clues? 

No, because the Java installation program uses Netscape for the install.

Your best bet at this point would be to install Netscape over the old
version.  If your settings are still there to be preserved, they will be.
Otherwise, you'll get a usable os2pref.js file without deleting anything.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Excuse me, miss?  Miss!?  Sorry, I have a cold.

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