>>>>> James D Carr writes:
James> Hi, Would it be possible to release a version of the JDK1.2
James> port without all the files which are common to the Windows
James> (or Sparc) release. I already have all the class and source
James> files (like I assume a lot of people do). My main problem
Unfortunately rt.jar contains platform specific code (e.g. the
sun.awt.motif package) and so it is not possible to run e.g. the linux
JVM with rt.jar from a Windows JDK. Even rt.jar from the Solaris JDK
is slightly different.
James> is a slow and sometimes unstable link to the Internet, so
James> downloading a 24MB file might take several attempts.
There are several tools that support continuation of interrupted ftp
downloads: wget, ncftp, ...
Juergen
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