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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: JDK for FreeBSD Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 19:50:10 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32308072.6A80@www.play-hookey.com> References: <322E7B05.41C67EA6@earthlink.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Fabian E. Schonholz wrote: > > I am having problems with runing applets on Netscape3.0. It crashes > everutime I get an applet. Also, I am runing a JDK for FreeBSD, but does > not support the AWT. Any help would be much appreciated. > > Ahh!! one more thing... anybody can give me some help running Kaffe > (such as env configurations and such!! ) > The crash upon encountering an applet is typically cause by a missing or wrong CLASSPATH environment variable -- it needs to point to the java_30 file you pulled out of the Netscape tarball. It doesn't really matter where you put the Netscape files (including java_30), but they have to be findable. I solved this requirement by setting CLASSPATH in my startx script. Since you didn't do this, you probably also didn't set up fonts.