> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitris Terzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 August 1999 14:53
> To: 'Java-Linux mailing list'
> Subject: RE: Problems installing JDK 1.1.7 and JDK 1.2 pre-v2
[snip]
> What happened is that, to download the tar files, I used an
> NT machine,
> linked to my Linux PC via Samba. So far so good. But, being
> lazy in typing
> "tar -xvf" under Linux, I used WinZip to un-tar and then copied the
> extracted files into the Linux JDK directory (1.1.7 or 1.2,
> respectively)
> directly. Well, I don't know why (please somebody explain),
Most of the java commands are implemented as links to .java_wrapper; they
are not "real" files.
I suspect that the problem is that WinZip does not know what to do with
these links.
AFAIK WinNT does not support hard or soft links [shortcuts are not the same
as links].
> but with this
> procedure I kinda "lost" files during the WinZip
> extraction!!! The jdk/bin
> directory contained only a few of the scripts,
> (.java_wrapper, java-rmi.cgi,
> checkVersions, and jre for JDK1.1.7 and only the first two of
> these for JDK
> 1.2)!!! Weird! So far I have un-tared several archives with
> WinZip, without
> any problems. Is there any shell script automatically running after
> un-taring with tar, which (reasonably) WinZip cannot execute?
[snip]
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