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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Java / Netscape 30b4 -- URGENT!
To: hafner@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Walter 'madhouse' Hafner)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:26:37 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <HAFNER.96Jun11100756@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> from "Walter 'madhouse' Hafner" at Jun 11, 96 08:07:53 am
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> Today's June, 11.  If I don't get a reply today you may aswell skip this
> mail ... :-((
> 
> I installed Netscape 30b4 with the port for -current on a fairly vanilla
> 2.1R system:
> 
> It went through without problems. It created the /usr/local/bin/netscape
> script and moved the binary to /usr/local/bin/netscape.bin. It created
> /usr/local/lib/netscape aswell and copied all necessary files to it.
> 
> I tried it and Netscape runs well with ONE exception: It doesn't execute
> Java-applets. The error message is "couldn't create AppletClassLoader
> for JavaScript"
> 
> The configuration is ok: I use the same preferences-file with 30b4 on a
> Sparc unter SunOS 4.1.3.
> 
> I tried the "mkfontdir" hint without success and commented out the
> CLASSDIR variable - also without success. I didn't get the classes.zip
> file, though.
> 
> Any further hints? It's realy URGENT: Thursday morning, my computer
> stands on a local exhibition as an Internet-surf-terminal ...

b4 is broken.  Reinstall b2.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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