From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jul 15 17:28:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12920 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep6.mail.ozemail.net (fep6.mail.ozemail.net [203.2.192.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12915 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe.shevland@horizonti.com) Received: from horizonti.com ([203.33.128.245]) by fep6.mail.ozemail.net (8.9.0/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA14567; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:28:36 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <35AD4989.F304F423@horizonti.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:30:01 +1000 From: Joe Organization: Horizon Technologies International X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Devadas Patil CC: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: jre for free BSD References: <01bdb04d$7449b5c0$9f4247ab@dpatil-pc.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Devadas Patil wrote: > > Hi, > > I downloaded jre1.1.5i.V98-2-25.tar.gz from www.freebsd.org/java. I > have the following questions: > > 1. Is this the real JRE for BSD? If not, where is the real JRE for > free BSD located? This Java Runtime Environment is the 'official' FreeBSD one (correct me if I'm wrong anyone). It works well and I haven't noticed any problems at all (apart from a few AWT things under X). > 2. when I try to use tar zxvpf ... on the above downloadit does not > extract all files; tar gives a message that it is skipping the next > header. Is there a remedy for this? > > WIth best regards, > Devadas Patil > Sounds like its not a .tar.gz, but I could be wrong. -- Joe Shevland Horizon Technologies International To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message