Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Jeff Galyan
I have to agree with Nathan. Until recently ("recently" being defined as within the last two or three months), I never got any response from the Blackdown team to my offers of assistance with porting -- and I'm from Sun. Now, don't get me wrong here -- the Blackdown team are volunteers and don't

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Ajemian
Agree with you, simple is good. This is getting a little blown out of proportion. My points are as follows: 1. Inprise JBuilder, sitting on top of JDK that Inprise authored. Good brand. Not involving Blackdown as the market might perceive that as a dilution (I know finance folks who w

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Nathan Meyers
Mike Ajemian wrote: > > Let me suggest a motive that makes sense. Inprise makes IDEs. IDEs > > include debuggers...Connect the dots. > > This was the point, Einstein. Inprise relies on its brand. I didn't > think I had to spell this out to the nth degree (I mean, who in this > discussion doesn'

Re: error loading shared libraries

1999-12-11 Thread Felix Tang
Raghu, If you look in the readme... one of them... you'll realize that you have to upgrade glibc. I haven't done it myself... so I went and got the jdk1.2.2 from Sun (it will work with the current glibc that you have).. Felix On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Raghu Havaldar wrote: > Hi, > > i have a prob

error loading shared libraries

1999-12-11 Thread Raghu Havaldar
Hi, i have a problem executing the JVM for JDK 1.2.2 RC3. When I try to start the JVM (thru ./bin/java), I get the following error message: "/usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/libphi.so: symbol sem

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Daniel Fisla
Very True. - Original Message - From: "Nathan Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Ajemian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:48 PM Subject: Re: another possibility wrt the press-r

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Ajemian
> Well, there doesn't seem to be any dispute that Inprise contacted > Blackdown repeatedly and was ignored. Really? I thought this was in dispute. > I'm sorry you object to the term "conspiracy theory", but one of my > criteria for using the term is when I see motives being assigned that > make

Re: Is there parallel port support from java for linux??

1999-12-11 Thread Trent Jarvi
Parallel port support builds in rxtx but I have had minimal feedback. Simple read/write should work with little or no midifications to the driver. Let me know how it goes. Trent Jarvi rxtx maintainer http://www.frii.com/~jarvi/rxtx/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Help Required!!

1999-12-11 Thread Amit
Dear Sir, I have a problem and would be grateful if you could help me. My java applet application is working perfectly fine with MSIE4.0 and with Netscape on Linux6.0.But while executing it with Netscape 4.5 on windows, it gives all sorts of errors.i.e. it does not follow top down procedure. e

Re: another possibility wrt the press-release.

1999-12-11 Thread Nathan Meyers
Mike Ajemian wrote: > My opinions are based on years of working in the industry and being > involved in discussions involving brand representation and issues of > brand dilution. To me, Inprise had no incentive to involve blackdown > in their release, so they didn't involve blackdown. If my opin