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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:36:29 +0100
From: Mark Huizer <xaa@stack.nl>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: Kyle Mestery <mestery@cobber.cord.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Java awt support?
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> > applets.  Any ideas?
> I don't know about the package stuff, but a port of Sun's JDK which I
> use for *Real* work (tm) is available at:
> ftp://freefall.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.11-26.tar.gz
> I know of at least 2 bugs in it.
> 
> - You can't use call system executables from it (it blows chunks and
>   leaves the process you called running in the netherlands).

Well, I for one can live with that! As long as my processes STAY in the
netherlands!

Mark

PS: kaffe 0.8.1 and newer come with biss-awt, which should work quite
ok