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From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>, Darren Davis <DARREND@novell.com>,
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Subject: Re: Yes!!! Netscape and Java for BSDI - Reply - Reply 
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My 2.2-current with netscape 3.0b2 works fine as well, runs Java apps no 
problem.  Wish I could contribute more than "It works for me", but hell, 
it's another datapoint.

On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Ummm..  Something is wrong :)  I get no Java Applets either (using a make
> > install from Jordan's port)...  Darren are you running -current?  Jordan
> > do you have Java working?
> 
> This is very strange.  I can tell you exactly what the sequence of
> events was in my installation of that port:
> 
> 1. Fetch the tar file.  Contemplate unpacking and installing it by hand
>    but decide "no, wait, I might as well just create a port for this right
>    here and now instead."
> 
> 2. Move the tar file to the distfiles directory and clone the netscape2
>    port as netscape3 (the missing "fetch" step here is why I blew the
>    initial path to the tarball, which Satoshi fixed - whoops!).
> 
> 3. Fix the new netscape3 port to DTRT for the slightly different structure
>    of the new port - mainly just change "hot-convert.sh" to "moz3_0.zip"
>    since the hot-convert script was gone and the moz3_0.zip file added.
> 
> 4. Make install.  Yow - it worked!
> 
> 5. Visit http://java.sun.com and run all the applets there.  Yow, they
>    work too!
> 
> 6. Import the port.
> 
> I'm running 2.2-current; I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
> 
> 						Jordan
> 
> > 
> > Here's what I found out:
> > 
> > 1- moz_blah.zip is in the correct place, because deleteing it causes
> > 	netscape to complain about it missing.
> > 2- Java Applets attempt to start (I get subprocess diagnostics as always)
> > 
> > 
> > Sujal
> > 
> > PS:  BTW, has anyone else noticed that the BSDI binary launches much
> > faster- and maybe performs better than the Linux one?  Do we demand page
> > Linux a.out binaries?
> > 
> 
>