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Date:      Mon, 20 May 1996 16:58:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        edward@cpm.telrad.co.il (Edward Beili)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape 3.0beta and Java in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199605202358.QAA29066@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.960520194002.988G-100000@tlcpmh34.elex.co.il> from "Edward Beili" at May 20, 96 07:57:44 pm

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> Last night I tried the latest Netscape 3.0 beta on FreeBSD 2.1R 
> (486DX33 with 8Mb of RAM). It didn't run Java applets
> even though Netscape says it should. More over when I attempted
> to use its built-in Java compiler 
> (netscape -java sun.tools.javac.Main Test.java)
> it crashed with "Memory fault" error. I suspect it wants more memory...
> Did anybody have a better experience? For that matter what is the status 
> of JDK for FreeBSD?

Here is one fix (as root):
	cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
	/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir

There is also an environment variable (with a "C" in it if I remember)
that you should *unset* for JAVA to work.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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