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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape won't display JAVA ?
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 13:02:50 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Damien Dixsaut wrote:
> 
>         Hello All,
> 
>    I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 (great OS !) and downloaded Netscape3
> from netscape.com ("Unknown BSD" version). It all works well, excepted that
> it won't display or run JAVA applets. The applets don't get loaded and a
> white square is displayed instead. No error messages are displayed.
> 
>    The file java_301 is installed in /usr/local/lib/netscape/ (and anyway
> Netscape complains if it's not here) and java is enabled in the Options
> menu. Also, it's not possible to display the JAVA console.
> 
>    Does anyone has an idea how to solve this problem ?

Do you have a CLASSPATH environment variable pointing to java_301? I put
that line in my startx file so it wouldn't matter which Xterm I used to
start Netscape.
-- 
Ken

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