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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0 and FreeBSD SOLVED! Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:56:14 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3263DE4E.3A9B@www.play-hookey.com> References: <53u77v$ar6@stout.entertain.com> 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) Darryl Watson wrote: > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! > > I have FINALLY got Netscape displaying Java apps on my FreeBSD 2.1R system. > > Send $10 to... no, I am joking. > > I did what everyone suggested: > > setenv CLASSPATH /usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java_30 > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > mkfontdir > > BUT, what I hadn't done before was to put the CLASSPATH declaration in my > .cshrc file, logout, login again, start up Xwin, and POOF! It worked. > > I was changing the CLASSPATH variable from a shell, and then running > Netscape, trusting to Netscape to have it as one would expect a child > process to inherit the environment of the parent. But NOOOOOOOOOO. > > Good luck, folks! And NEE-NER to Microsoft and their filthy operating > system, Lose95. Excellent! And you're right; changing the environment in one shell won't help another. What I had done (which I didn't think to mention :-( ) was to declare the CLASSPATH variable in startx, so that it would automatically be defined for anybody starting X. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |