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From: lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape/Java trouble
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:31:32 +0100
Organization: UCC Computer Science Dept.
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I too suffered with this problem.  It took me weeks to eventually
find the problem. It all comes down to a faulty font file. The
solution is simple however:

 > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/; mkfontdir


Udo Wolter wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I'm having trouble with Java under Netscape 3.01. But it's not only the 3.01
> version, it's also 3.0 and even when I try to open a netscape from a
> remote-machine I only get empty fields for java-applets. I think this must bean
> X windows bug. But how can I get around this bug ? The netscape navigator finds
> my java_301 file and even accesses it (testet by ls -lu). But then I got only
> white spaces in the middle of web pages. So what can I do ? I'm running FreeBSD
> 2.1.7R.
> 
> Thanx for any help !
> 
> Bye,
>         Udo
> --
> Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de
> !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!


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