From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jul 15 21:21:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09868 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:21:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09863 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:21:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA24766; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:21:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA17779; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:21:00 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:21:00 -0600 Message-Id: <199807160421.WAA17779@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Devadas Patil" Cc: Subject: Re: jre for free BSD In-Reply-To: <01bdb04d$7449b5c0$9f4247ab@dpatil-pc.cisco.com> References: <01bdb04d$7449b5c0$9f4247ab@dpatil-pc.cisco.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I downloaded jre1.1.5i.V98-2-25.tar.gz from www.freebsd.org/java. I > have the following questions: > > 1. Is this the real JRE for BSD? If not, where is the real JRE for > free BSD located? It's as real as it gets. In other words, yes. :) > 2. when I try to use tar zxvpf ... on the above > downloadit does not extract all files; tar gives a message that it is > skipping the next header. Is there a remedy for this? Download the file in binary mode? I don't know, I just checked the master file, and it works for me. Maybe your browser corrupted the file, or auto-uncompressed it or something. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message