Hello, all.
I saw the note about Klasses.jar on the list, rebuilt, and reinstalled. That was evidently part of the problem I was seeing, as now javac comes back with an error, as opposed to being utterly silent. Here's what I'm seeing now: acheron 1 /home/mason/work/java$ javac hello.java java.lang.VerifyError: at pc 5 sp 7 not in range [4, 6] at java.io.PushbackReader.<init>(PushbackReader.java:32) at at.dms.compiler.tools.antlr.extra.InputBuffer.<init>(InputBuffer.java:68) at at.dms.compiler.tools.antlr.extra.InputBuffer.<init>(InputBuffer.java:81) at at.dms.kjc.Main.parseFile(Main.java:278) at at.dms.kjc.Main.run(Main.java:116) at at.dms.kjc.Main.compile(Main.java:68) at at.dms.kjc.Main.main(Main.java:59) In case it matters, here's the hello.java file. I assume it's nothing to do with that, in part because other javac's compile it okay. // 40 line Java demo, Peter van der Linden import java.awt.*; class hello extends Frame { static int x=0,y=120; // x,y position to display message static int i=0; static int LtoR=1; // 1->we are moving msg L-to-R, 0->top to bott. Font fb = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.BOLD, 36); String msg[] = {"Java", "Portable", "Secure", "Easy"}; Color color[] = {Color.blue, Color.yellow, Color.green, Color.red}; public void paint(Graphics g) // gets called by the runtime library { g.setFont( fb ); g.setColor( color[i] ); g.drawString(msg[i],x,y); } static public void main(String s[]) throws Exception { hello mf = new hello(); mf.setSize(220,200); int pixelsPerLine=200, totalLines=4; mf.setVisible(true); for (int j=0;j<pixelsPerLine*totalLines; j++) { Thread.sleep(25); mf.repaint(); if (LtoR==1) { if ( (x+=3) < 200) continue; i = ++i % 4; // move index to next // msg/color x=50; y=0; LtoR=0; // move msg top to // bott next time } else { if ( (y+=3) < 200) continue; i = ++i % 4; // move index to next // msg/color x=0; // move msg L-to-R next y=120; // time LtoR=1; } } System.exit(0); } } Thanks in advance for clues. -- Mason Loring Bliss awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://acheron.ne.client2.attbi.com/