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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!mcsun!EU.net!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Java support in Netscape 3.0 is not working for me Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 15:17:12 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3229A8F8.43BB@www.play-hookey.com> References: <322690B3.41C67EA6@golden.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Charlie Root wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out how to make the Java support to work with > Netscape 3.0 under FreeBSD v2.10. So far I have been unsuccessful. > > Is there somebody out there that has this combination working? Yep. I still have to get my sound card up and running in FreeBSD, but applets are now running fine. You have to do two things: make sure an env variable CLASSPATH points to the java_30 file from the tarball, and follow the directions in earlier posts about using mkfontdir to properly create the fonts.dir directory within the Xwindow tree. Once I did those two, it worked without a qualm. > > Also - is the tip from Java World still going to work? ( The one how you > can use Netscape to compile Java programs using the line: > > netscape -java sun.java.tools.Main myJava.java ) > I don't know about this one; haven't tried it yet. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |