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To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>
cc: Darren Davis <DARREND@novell.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Yes!!! Netscape and Java for BSDI - Reply - Reply 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Mar 1996 03:29:36 EST."
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 07:55:23 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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?
>