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From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with JDK-FreeBSD
Date: 4 Feb 1997 17:07:08 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <32F69A55.41C67EA6@erols.com>,
Lee Cremeans (at home) <mcampbel@erols.com> wrote:
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>I got the JDK port from freefall, and it works on simple ("Hello World!)
>programs. If I try it on Corel Office for Java (or any other
>substantial applet), however, it won't work (either segfaults or gives
>me a "void main(String argv[]) is not defined"). Also, appletviewer
>always segfaults, no matter what I use with it.
Are you running on a 16-bit display? Sun's JDK (which FreeBSD's port is
directly related to) only works on 8-bit displays correctly.
I'm running the JDK on *very* significant applications and it works just
as well (just as bad) as the JDK Sun distributes with their most recent
development tools.
Nate
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