John Summerfield writes:
 > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Steve Byrne wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > Aw, come on, man!  RTFM!  I covered this in great detail; you should take the
 > 
 > Well I for one don't know which frigging document you're talking about.

I guess README.linux *could* be named more obviously :-)

 > I've just installed the jre on a system without X. To make the jre even run
 > I found it necessary to install a part of XFree even though I don't want
 > the gui.

Fixed in v5.

 > I can see no mention of this in any of the documentation included with the
 > package jre1.1.6-v4a-i386-libc5.tar.gz.

Look again in README.linux.

 > Exercise patience and courtesy in your replies. You too were a beginner
 > once.

Yes.  And I didn't ask for help before exhausting the other options, if I asked
for help at all.

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