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From: lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Netscape Java stopped working!?
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:35:44 +0100
Organization: UCC Computer Science Dept.
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By "use the port" I presume you mean the FreeBSD port of Netscape?
Well yes I am using the FreeBSD ver, along with the OSF ver. Both
will display fine to the X server on the OSF Alpha but niether will
display applets on FreeBSD's X.
Thanks anyway.
Nathan V. Patwardhan wrote:
>
> lumpy (lumpy@cs.ucc.ie) wrote:
> : Thanks for the input, but the CLASSPATH doesn't seem to be the problem.
> : It can be ruled out when one considers that changing no env variables,
> : just which X server Netscape displays to, causes it to work ( or not ).
>
> Did you "use the port?" The first time I downloaded Netscape 3.01 for
> FreeBSD, I didn't use the port (like a dumbass, perhaps), and Java never
> worked. As soon as I used the port / used a correct wrapper for netscape
> which exported CLASSPATH, etc, Netscape, Java, and the Java console worked
> flawlessly.
>
> --
> Nathan V. Patwardhan
> nvp@shore.net
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