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From: Vlad <vlad@uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Java support in Netscape 3.0 is not working for me
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 14:17:31 -0500
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Ken Bigelow wrote:
> 
> Charlie Root wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >

> > 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     )
> >
> 
> I don't know about this one; haven't tried it yet.

	According to the guy who maintained the javac port it stopped working
after the first few beta releases of Netscape 3.0. You can look at kaffe
port (but to actually compile Java I think you would need something like
guavac which would in turn require gcc v.2.7...., have a look at
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/jolt/).

Vlad.