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From: Carl Makin <C.Makin@nla.gov.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape and JAVA
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 13:03:30 +1000
Organization: National Library of Australia
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Steve Kiernan wrote:

> In article <4raoal$68b@emerald.silicon.net>,
>         chris@Silicon.NET (Christopher Ellwood) writes:
> >In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, Wayne Farmer wrote...
> >>Olaf Manczak wrote:
> >>> I have a strange problem: I am running netscape (3.0b5 but it happens
> >>> with 2.02 as well) on a FreeBSD 2.1.0 machine and whenever a Java
> >>> applet is being loaded an error message(s)

> >>>    couldn't create AppletClassLoader for JavaScript
> >>>

> You need to recreate your fonts directories with mkfontdir.

I had the same problem with 3.0b4.  It turned out that I had
"substitute" colors set in the image options menu.  I switched it back
to "automatic" and JAVA now (mostly) works.

Carl.

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