Thanks for the hints,
I got responses for invoking java, not the appletviewer. My handy copy of
Java in a Nutshell at work is the first edition, so I missed the fact that
one can pass the java options on through. The more recent copy at home gave
me the answer: use -J[java option]. Thus the solution is
appletviewer -J-mx32m some.html
sets max memory to 32 Megs.
Marius
Marius Schamschula, optical physicist, mac, and network coordinator
The Center for Applied Optical Sciences: http://www.caos.aamu.edu/
Department of Physics, Alabama A & M University