[R] help uses only netscape?

[Jeff D. Hamann]

> I don't have netscape installed on my machine (FreeBSD 4.4) and when I
type
> the command help.start(), I get
>
> > netscape: not found
>
> error. I do have mozilla installed. Is this a defect? can I run any web
> browser?
>
> jeff.
>
>
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