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From: Paul Saab <spaul@yogurt.apg.more.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java with Communicator Pre 3
Date: 26 May 1997 01:44:20 GMT
Organization: Missouri Research and Education Network
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Cowan L. Bowman <cowan@cyberport.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else having trouble getting java to work with 
> Netscape Communicator Prerelease 3?

> Communicator is finding the java classes and tries to run an applet and
> then terminates with a floating point exception.

This is caused because java requires 16 bit color or higher.. I think..

Paul Saab
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