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From: lumpy <lumpy@cs.ucc.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java and netscape?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:32:11 +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

Andrew Mathenge wrote:
> 
> I've setup Netscape 3.01 on FreeBSD... and it works fine.  But Java
> pages do not run the java applets.  I can load the java HTML page, but I
> do not see anything.
> 
> I've then set a CLASSPATH environment variable to point to where the
> java_301 file is.  That file is installed in $HOME/.netscape
> 
> Is there anything further that I need to do to enable java on netscape?
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Andrew.

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