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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!van-bc,bofh.dot!unixg.ubc.ca!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!zephyr!jerijian From: jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) Subject: Re: Java & BSD ? was Re: Will FreeBSD adopt Java like everybody else? Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon) Message-ID: <slrn4pdfdh.1gtv.jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 04:42:27 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: typhoon.seas.ucla.edu References: <4m6gdj$8h8@sidhe.memra.com> <830995754.1413.0@iiltd.demon.co.uk> <SANTOS.96May7131033@mickey03.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> <4msup5$ra6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: School of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA. X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.1 UNIX) Lines: 10 For what it's worth, Linux 1.3.100 supports Java executables directly by means of loading the Java interpreter upon encoutering a file magic number, similar to the way a shell is loaded to execute a script. Arthur D. Jerijian | I grant MSN permission to redistribute jerijian@seas.ucla.edu | my portions of this message free of a540adj@helios.math.ucla.edu | charge. adj@ucla.edu |