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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: JDK 1.0.2 for FreeBSD released [Java Development Kit] Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:17:18 -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Lines: 48 Sender: daemon@taronga.com Approved: peter@taronga.com Message-ID: <52f9uu$acr@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.taronga.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: JDK 1.0.2 for FreeBSD released [Java Development Kit] Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:15:28 -0700 Message-ID: <17725.843786928@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org> Subject: JDK 1.0.2 for FreeBSD Announcement ------------ A native FreeBSD binary distribution of the JDK 1.0.2 is now available from freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.tar.gz This port contains the java interpreter, compiler, and appletviewer. This is a completely unsupported distribution. Installation ------------ 1. Grab freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.tar.gz. 2. Create a directory and untar the FreeBSD distribution in there. 3. Install the pdksh port. Running the JDK --------------- If your JDK directory is rooted at <jdk>, you need to set 1. your path to include the <jdk>/bin directory 2. CLASSPATH environment variable to .:<jdk>/classes 3. LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include <jdk>/lib/i386 To compile a java program, invoke 'javac program.java'. To run it, use 'java <name of main class>'. Answers to Common Questions --------------------------- Q: Do I need Motif? A: No. Q: Which version of FreeBSD does this work on? A: I run the current version of FreeBSD, so that's the only version which I've verified. Q: It doesn't work on my machine. What do I do? A: You are out of luck. This is a completely unsupported distribution. ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa--