From owner-freebsd-java Thu Feb 19 17:40:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11431 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11401 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe.shevland@horizonti.com) Received: from jupiter ([203.33.128.245]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA22476; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:40:22 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199802200140.MAA22476@oznet02.ozemail.com.au> From: "Joe Shevland" To: "Philip Sydney Lavers" Cc: Subject: Re: i downloaded java now what? Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 12:38:43 +1100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apologies for any paragraph mangling that occurs as a result of using an as-expected shocking M$ mail client. > I have down loaded java and installed it in /usr/local/jdk1.1.5 as > recommended > I did this because my Netscape 3.01 will not view a web site, > www.geobits.com that my kids gave me as a birthday present, although any > of my win95 browsers see it ok > I thought the problem might have been a lack of java on my system Browser's use their own virtual machine, so you don't need to have a JDK or JRE installed. > Now I have more problems that I am not competent to solve: > 1 > I had to su to root to get the tar to work. now Icant get into the > /usr/local/jdk1.1.5 as an ordinaryt user Use 'chmod' and 'chown' to alter permissions on the files that have been installed. These routines use octal values to specify read/write/execute permissions. Although I would have thought the installation process would fix permissions for you. e.g. chmod 777 'filename' will give owner, group and world read, write and execute privs. > 2 > even when i su back to root and get ino /usr/local/jdk1.1.5/demo/Clock > say what do I do to run the demonstration? 'appletviewer ' from the command line will work, as will navigating to this directory using a browser (I've set up apache on localhost to do this). Applications (as opposed to applets) use the 'java' command line script/executable. > i am trying to eschew Microsoft and encourage others to do the same via > FreeBSD or Linux A noble pursuit. > I realise > everything would be easier if i were an unix guru, but i am not and have > better things to do than to try to become one. I would be grateful for > some help. I agree. FreeBSD would be an even more potent platform if it become more accessible to the average user. Hopefully Java will have a large part ot play in providing nice frontends and admin tools :) Hope this helped. ********************************************************************** Joe Shevland - Horizon Technologies International Email: joe.shevland@horizonti.com We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message