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From: Johan Lithander <johan@teligent.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CORE TEAM, please read
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:54:02 +0100
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I've installed Netscape 3.01 on 2.2-GAMMA and it works fine with Java.
(installed from "ports" directory).


Jason Gabler wrote:
> 
> I have been asking questions about this since 2.2-ALPHA and no one has given
> me a straight answer...
> 
> I have been running Netscape 3.01 using the builtin JVM with FreeBSD
> 2.1R without incendent since Netscape 3.01 came out.
> 
> I upgraded one 2.1R box to 2.2-ALPHA and the Netscape JVM doesn't
> work.  I made a brand-new 2.2-GAMMA box and it won't work on that
> either.  It all still works fine on my 2.1R boxes.
> 
> Have you heard of this problem?  Do you know that this won't work?
> Has it been working fine from the core team's perspective?
> 
> ... some more details...
> 
> ok, so I place the classes and nls in the right place, set my paths
> right, enable java in the browser and try to load an applet.
> Sometimes it loads the HTML and I never see anything; even if I put
> text in the APPLET tag that would come up if I weren't able to run the
> applet.  Nothing at all, no applet, no message.   Sometimes the status
> bar will say "Applet can't initialize".  And, the Java console (from
> the Options menu) will not open.  I choose to open the console, and
> nothing happens, no error messsage, no popup window, nothing.
> 
> Could someone drop me an e-mail so that I can work on this *with*
> someone from whichever FreeBSD team handles these situations.  I am
> more than willing to help in identifying the problem and figure out a
> solution.  But its obvious by now I cannot do it by myself.
> 
> --
> Lehitra'ot!
>                 jason
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> 'Programmer/Analyst                Campus Office: 916-752-9215 (Th)      '
> `Information Technology - DCAS     E-Page: jygabler@dcaspager.ucdavis.edu'
> 'University of California, Davis   http://quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu       `
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