hint to mirror maintainers...

1999-11-28 Thread Chris Abbey
there's actvity on the web pages... you might want to update your mirrors. and those that think it's being done for you might want to double check your scripts three out of four mirrors are at least five months out of date, while the remaining one is unreachable from here. Considering how slow

Testing RMI with New release

1999-11-28 Thread Santos Jha
Hi, I was trying to learn RMI using JDK1.2.2. I am using different examples given in Java Network Programming(2nd edition). My rmiregistry command runs successfully. However when I give java DateServerImpl it gives me /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/jre/lib/rt.jar Bad file Discriptor. Do you have any hint

Re: Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread John N. Alegre
Thanks for your reply John. In the old days of UNIX shar files were just borne shell scripts with any binary in a uuencode include. The script itself was always ascii, thus my incorrect assumption that this was to be downloaded as ascii. Indeed downloading as bin fixed things. I have cc'ed thi

Re: NEW JDK RELEASE! "Illegal instruction"

1999-11-28 Thread Peter Graves
Yes. I get the same Illegal instruction error on a Pentium MMX 233 running Debian potato (refreshed last night), glibc-2.1.2. -Peter Paul Bowman wrote: > > The JDK-1.2.2rc2 release appears to have been built with some native > code > which is dependent on a Pentium II or newer processor. > >

Re: Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread John N. Alegre
Looks like that might be the problem ill go back and download as a bin. In the old days shar files where always ascii with any bin date uuencoded. Thanks for the help john On 28-Nov-99 Will Koffel wrote: > At 2:16 PM -0600 11/28/99, John N. Alegre wrote: >>What gives? Why the shar file an

Re: Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread Riyad Kalla
Shouldn't you download it as a binary since its a self container archive? If you download as ASCII aren't you destroying the nature of the archive? Just a thought -Riyad "John N. Alegre" wrote: > Ok, got a problem. > > Downloaded 21 megs of jdk-1.2.2-RC2-linux-i386-glibc-2.1.2.sh. Downlo

Re: Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread Will Koffel
At 2:16 PM -0600 11/28/99, John N. Alegre wrote: >What gives? Why the shar file anyway? bz2 was ok, gz even better. shar files >aren't even compressed Well, as I understand it, this is indeed compressed. It would be silly not to. The web page described it as a self-extracting zip file, if

Re: Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread Nathan Meyers
Download as binary. The file is bristling with non-ASCII data. Nathan On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 02:16:37PM -0600, John N. Alegre wrote: > Ok, got a problem. > > Downloaded 21 megs of jdk-1.2.2-RC2-linux-i386-glibc-2.1.2.sh. Downloaded it > as ASCII from ftp.tux.org. > > When I do: > > sh jdk-

Re: RPMs

1999-11-28 Thread James Butler
Well, I don't think it is as simple as that. If only it was.I was being rather specific in picking on tars and bzips but I think it is the company (Reuters) LAN or the CD writer just misbehaving somewhere. James. - Original Message - From: Albert Y.C. Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

Corrupted JDK-1.2.2

1999-11-28 Thread John N. Alegre
Ok, got a problem. Downloaded 21 megs of jdk-1.2.2-RC2-linux-i386-glibc-2.1.2.sh. Downloaded it as ASCII from ftp.tux.org. When I do: sh jdk-1.2.2-RC2-linux-i386-glibc-2.1.2.sh I get about 10 screens of licence info and then: 5. Source Code. Software may contain source code that is provide

JCK Test

1999-11-28 Thread Riyad Kalla
Time-wise, how long does it take to re-run the JCK tests? ( please let me know the hardware its being run on ) Best wishes, -- [ Riyad Kalla ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ CS - Major ] [ University of Arizona ] -

Re: RPMs

1999-11-28 Thread Albert Y.C. Lai
"James Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because my office network and CD writer, in a concerted attempt, do > not wish me to copy any file that ends with .tar or .bz2 When you download the files, save it with a name (and type) of your choice. If necessary, further change the name and the t

Re:jdk bug (nested memory levels)?

1999-11-28 Thread Robert Krueger
Kevin Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > > OUCH: nested memory code, to 1 levels. > > This is an error message that basically says the locks we placed around our own > malloc functions to make them green_thread safe were *not* effective. > > ... > I am not sure how to debug this problem. Is there any

Re: Assistance please...

1999-11-28 Thread Todd Papaioannou
>Blackdown's documentation seems quite inadequate especially to a beginner >like me who is more used to the plug and play nature of Windows. Well, talking of plug and play like behaviour. Does anyone know where I can get the RPM's for the Blackdown ports? cheers Todd

Re: (Review ID: 98288) Tried to submit a bugreport on grigbaglayout

1999-11-28 Thread Uncle George
I dont know about 1.2.2, Sun is no releaseing any Non-Commercial source releases to me anymore. In one of my followup messages I did offer to supply the code, and point u to the part that has gone awol. I did not get an answer. Nor did I get an answer to this msg I posted. :-/ Its unfortunate t

RPMs

1999-11-28 Thread James Butler
You may remember my plea for assistance for help with installing the JDK and all the archiving problems I had. I was wondering if there was a concerted effort, anywhere, to create RPMs of the latest releases.   Because my office network and CD writer, in a concerted attempt, do not wish me t

Socket problem

1999-11-28 Thread Daniel Sears
I'm having trouble running the networking examples from the Java tutorial on the Linux JDK. I know this is basic stuff and I've gone through the mailing list archives and the FAQ My problem is that Socket throws an IOException for every IP address I use. For example: try { ec