Font.properties for Latin-2

1999-08-18 Thread Damijan Sencar
Hi! I am looking for font.properties file supporting Latin-2 character set or some examples how to write font.properties file. Thanx, Damijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread Gunnar Stahl
> It is very fascinating to see what is right now going on in the java market. Mainly during the last two or three years there was a big hype going on about java and the "write once run anywhere" promise. Sun claimed it's java to be the solving of the problems of modern computerlanguages. You wri

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-17 11:40:42 -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I don't see it being in Sun's interest at all to support Linux. They are shooting, > obviously, for the biggest market. I always found it interesting that they had a full > complete JDK for Win32 LONG before they had a final version available for

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So we're left with a few questions. Should the existing devolopers of > Java porting projects aid an IBM JDK? IBM having greater resources to > throw at this, knowing that their work would go to speed up the > production of a product owned by a corporation, that inte

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread eric van berkel
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:00:20 Gunnar Stahl wrote: >> > >maybe in the desktop area. And they knew that it was very usefull to create the >thought and feeling of a "java community". But the big heads at solaris >suddenly noticed that linux is becoming more and more stronger and that they >have t

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread SHUDO Kazuyuki
Michael Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By splitting the JVM from the class libraries via a portable interface we gain a >lot ! > I think if development was split between multiple JVM's and a open robust class >library > we could get competative support from comercial and Open Source v

Re: We need change, I think...

1999-08-18 Thread peter pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Riyad> - What they need from US to help out > Riyad> - What the future looks like. > > The JDK 1.1.8 is nearly finished (the remaining problem is the native > threads vm). > The next JDK 1.2 release will be 1.2.1 because AFAIK there still is no > JCK t

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Larry Gates
>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:48:11 + >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> So, I think the Linux community needs a better, GUI driven FTP >> program in the style of CuteFTP. Java is well suited to develop this. > >ncftp> get -R >will do it, if you want all the files in one directory. yea

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-18 10:50:26 -0300, Larry Gates wrote: > >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Personally, I can't stand GUI ftp tools. But if you want them, try a > >search on freshmeat.org. I'm sure they'll have half a dozen. > > their website isn't up yet... http://core.freshmeat.net/mirrors.php

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Michael Emmel
SHUDO Kazuyuki wrote: > Michael Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > By splitting the JVM from the class libraries via a portable interface we gain >a lot ! > > I think if development was split between multiple JVM's and a open robust class >library > > we could get competative support f

Re: How can I help?

1999-08-18 Thread Moses DeJong
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Larry Gates wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:48:11 + > >From: Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> So, I think the Linux community needs a better, GUI driven FTP > >> program in the style of CuteFTP. Java is well suited to develop this. > > > >ncftp> get -R > >w

do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Greg Walker
A mere curiosity ... I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference between algorithms to solve for trig functions or logarithms between j

Re: do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1999-08-18 11:52:16 -0500, Greg Walker wrote: > I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* > (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I > use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference > between algorithms to solve for tri

RE: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread Pablo Prieto
>Win32 is the desktop OS. M$ was threatening the success of Java with J++ and >their Java-clone (COOL IIRC). Java without Win32 is a no-go. Linux is not that >important _yet_. We are migrating from NT to Linux. And evrything is going right. It's not a fast step. First We had to test the OS itself

Re: do different jvm perform calcs differently?

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
Greg Walker wrote: > > A mere curiosity ... > > I have a class that performs many calcs. The values are *slightly* > (after about 14 significant figures) different depending on the jvm I > use (either ibm's 1.1.6 or blackdown's 1.1.7). Is there a difference > between algorithms to solve for trig

Fix for "libjava.so not found"; Also sunwjit

1999-08-18 Thread Marc Rubin, Jay's Island Software Development & Consulting
A Blackdown team member provided a solution for my post here on 31-July-1999 regarding "Error: can't find libjava.so". The reply was via personal e-mail, so I'm forwarding the solution back to this listserv, for all who have asked for a follow up: >You tried something like 'cd jdk1.2/bin ; java

Crash on large java compiles under NFS?

1999-08-18 Thread A.J. Rossini
I'm consistently getting things like: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation stackpointer=0xbfffd97c Full thread dump Classic VM (Linux_JDK_1.2_pre-release-v2, native threads): "Finalizer" (TID:0x40ce3320, sys_thread_t:0x80ccb88, state:CW, native ID:0xc04) prio=8 at java.la

Create an Image without using AWT

1999-08-18 Thread Spectron International, Inc.
I need to create an Image object in a servlet. The problem is that the createImage() functions seems to need AWT and I can't create an AWT object in a servlet because it always tries to connect to the X Server. Is there something like a MemoryImage class that I can create to use as an offscreen ca

Re: Create an Image without using AWT

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
"Spectron International, Inc." wrote: > > I need to create an Image object in a servlet. The problem is that the > createImage() functions seems to need AWT and I can't create an AWT object > in a servlet because it always tries to connect to the X Server. Is there > something like a MemoryImage

Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Riyad Kalla
If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference between that solution and JDK 1.2prev2? I would prefer a faster so

linux distribution preinstall java

1999-08-18 Thread J.P.Lewis
I think we should lobby a couple of the major linux distributions to include blackdown on their CDs. Most developers have a fast net connection, but downloading and correctly installing java is quite an effort if all you have is a modem connection. I heard that Redhat says that they can't for l

Re: Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
Riyad Kalla wrote: > > If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. > And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be > JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and > Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference > between that solution and JDK 1.2pr

Re: Food for thought...

1999-08-18 Thread tdean
>> IMHO, the ideal situation would be for Sun to support Linux as one of its >> primary platforms. I don't understand why Sun does not. It would help Unix >and >> hurt NT (After all, the enemy of my enemy etc.). > >Is Linux not as much of a thread to Solaris? If done properly Linux can be levera

Re: Java on Linux...

1999-08-18 Thread Bryce McKinlay
Riyad Kalla wrote: > If I am just am just doing basic Swing/Java apps on Linux. > And want a farily stable solution, would my best bet to be > JDK 1.1.8 (when it comes out in a bit from Blackdown) and > Swing 1.1.1 from Sun? Or is there THAT much difference > between that solution and JDK 1.2prev