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From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1.4
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>
>One installs the Linux emulation library from the port collection, unpacks
>the JDK archive in a convenient place, and updates a few environment
>variables (PATH, JAVA_HOME, CLASSPATH, ...).  The setup instructions for
>the JDK itself are probably included but it's pretty trivial.

I got this far 8)

>As far as the .java_wrapper script goes, I think it was just a matter of
>changing the invocation of 'arch' to the appropriate variant of 'uname' and
>using the FreeBSD equivalent to some weird option of '['.  It's on my home
>machine so not accessible right now -- I'll try to remember to mail you a
>copy over the weekend.

This is where I need some help.

Patrick