DAMN! you got me. I totally forgot about the bash export stuff.
Thats what it was. Durn...
As for netscape, I don't know what to say. Does it use a local JVM or does
it use its own?
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Michael Sinz wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:48:32 -0500 (EST), Patrick wrote:
>
> >Well, running 1.1.6 CLASSPATH doesn't work. At all. Its all set up to
> >point ot classes.zip and 2 JMF jar files. if I put it in command line
> >(java -classpath $CLASSPATH CLASS) it works grrrreat.
>
> Strange. What "java" are you running?
> (As in, what is returned from "which java" ?)
>
> Given that you can put CLASSPATH right there it looks like it is
> set up correctly (as far as syntax) but could it be that you did
> not "export" the CLASSPATH variable? (in bash: "export CLASSPATH")
> Variables that are not exported are only visible from the current
> shell, not any other shells, including sub-shells.
>
> >But, netscape doesn't want to see any of it. Any hints?
>
> Well, for the silly Netscape thing I have a shell script called
> "netscape" that is what really runs netscape and it cleans out any
> of the variables that should not be there and then runs the correct
> version of the netscape binary.
>
> Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
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