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From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: java under netscape3.0 on FreeBSd-2.1.5
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:18:16 -0400
Organization: Bay Networks, Inc.
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Jin Guojun[ITG] wrote:
> 
> Java applets can run under netscape2.02 on Sun Sparc and display on FreeBSD.
> It will not run under netscape3.0 on any platforms and display on FreeBSD.
> It can run under netscape3.0 on FreeBSD and display on Sun workstation.
> 
> Does any know what things are missing on FreeBSD to make this happening?

There is a bug somewhere, but no one has 'fessed up yet.  (I suspect
netsape).

Anyway, as someone else has pointed out, run the X font server, and use
that
instead of local fonts and things work.

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Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256)
BWithrow@BayNetworks.com