*BSD News Article 80916


Return to BSD News archive

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 & Java
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:01:56 -0700
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Lines: 47
Message-ID: <32664A64.34E7@www.play-hookey.com>
References: <53j7ib$kjp@news.lipetsk.su> <325E862A.3AAB@www.play-hookey.com> <53tl0s$91t@news.lipetsk.su>
Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.96.82.6
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U)
To: Victor Gamov <vit@takthq.lipetsk.su>

In case you missed the post on this topic later in this NG, check on one
other thing: You have to have your CLASSPATH set in the same shell and
Xterm that runs Netscape. An easy way to do this is to set the CLASSPATH
environment variable early in the startx script; then it doesn't matter
which user fires it up; it will be there in all Xterms.


Victor Gamov wrote:
> 
> Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote:
> : Victor Gamov wrote:
> : >
> : >                 Hi!
> : >
> : >         I have some problem with Netscape-3.0 -- I cann't run Java applet :-(
> : >    I use FreeBSD-2.1.0.
> 
> : Did you set the CLASSPATH env. variable to point to the java_30 file?
> 
>         Yes!  I add setenv line in my .cshrc and now I enjoy JAVA.
>    But before I have following netscape executable file:
> 
>         #!/bin/sh
>         #
>         #
>         CLASSPATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape/java_30
>         export CLASSPATH
>         exec Netscape
> 
>    and I hove no JAVA.
> 
> : You also need to:
> 
> :       cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> :       /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
> 
> : Now applets should run.

>         CU, Victor Gamov


-- 
Ken

Are you interested in   |
byte-sized education    |   http://www.play-hookey.com
over the Internet?      |