*BSD News Article 77636


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java support in Netscape 3.0 is not working for me
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 13:08:34 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <32289BC2.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>
References: <322690B3.41C67EA6@golden.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386)
To: Charlie Root <eugene@golden.net>

> I am trying to figure out how to make the Java support to work with
> Netscape 3.0 under FreeBSD v2.10. So far I have been unsuccessful.
> 
> Is there somebody out there that has this combination working?

Yeah, I run java applets all the time with BSDI's Netscape 3.0.

> Also - is the tip from Java World still going to work? ( The one how you
> can use Netscape to compile Java programs using the line:
> 
> netscape -java sun.java.tools.Main myJava.java     )

No, that seems to have broken back in BETA-6 and was never fixed. :-(
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project