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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!sun4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!rgroesb From: rgroesb@cs.vu.nl (Groesbeek R) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Java socket troubles? Date: 15 May 1997 09:41:56 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 75 Message-ID: <5lelp4$1gu@star.cs.vu.nl> References: <5l7b31$23s@star.cs.vu.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: sloep69.cs.vu.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40912 Groesbeek R (rgroesb@cs.vu.nl) wrote: : -- : ******************* Begin: Automated Fortune message ******************* : Some points to remember [about animals]: : (1) Don't go to sleep under big animals, e.g., elephants, rhinoceri, Hmm shoot! My tin was F#%#^# up. Ok here it comes again: >> Howdy, I had some problems with a java applet of mine. I stripped down my Java Irc Applet for a friend of mine, so that it could connect at his Irc-bot Party-line. His bot is called "eembot" (eggdrop-compatible). Now some user of that bot reported.. >> Hi! I am running an Eembot in my IRC server, but I have trouble with the "partyline" java applet. Emiel Bruijntjes told me that you are the author of the applet, so I am asking you for help. The error displayed in the webpage for the partyline is: > Applet tcp Applet exception: java_lang.NullPointerException (you can try it in: http://irc.usac.edu.gt:8080/!party) The bot is running in a FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine. Could you help me with that, please? Cheers, << ************************************************ And he mailed me.. ************************************************ >> That sounds good to me :-) Please send it and let's see if that solves my problem. BTW... other Eembots, installed under Linux, don't have that problem :-( I tought that java was platform-independent! << Now I was wondering... Is there some tcp/ip bug/change(?) to the Net3 of Linux? And to the Solaris Implementation of TCP/IP? He is using: "FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE" Before I'm trying to debug that silly client, I just would like to know if more people had problems with that. Thnx in advance Roderick -- ******************* Begin: Automated Fortune message ******************* " ... I told my doctor I got all the exercise I needed being a pallbearer for all my friends who run and do exercises!" -- Winston Churchill