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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0 and FreeBSD SOLVED!
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:56:14 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Darryl Watson wrote:
> 
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
> 
> I have FINALLY got Netscape displaying Java apps on my FreeBSD 2.1R system.
> 
> Send $10 to... no, I am joking.
> 
> I did what everyone suggested:
> 
>         setenv CLASSPATH /usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java_30
>         cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
>         mkfontdir
> 
> BUT, what I hadn't done before was to put the CLASSPATH declaration in my
> .cshrc file, logout, login again, start up Xwin, and POOF!  It worked.
> 
> I was changing the CLASSPATH variable from a shell, and then running
> Netscape, trusting to Netscape to have it as one would expect a child
> process to inherit the environment of the parent.  But NOOOOOOOOOO.
> 
> Good luck, folks!  And NEE-NER to Microsoft and their filthy operating
> system, Lose95.


Excellent! And you're right; changing the environment in one shell won't
help another.

What I had done (which I didn't think to mention  :-(  ) was to declare
the CLASSPATH variable in startx, so that it would automatically be
defined for anybody starting X.
-- 
Ken

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