Re: jdk1.5 and sparc

2006-09-04 Thread Jim Watson
On 04/09/2006, at 11:28 PM, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:18:07 +1000 Dan Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my last resort is of course solaris 10. In my experience, on SPARC Solaris 10 is the superior OS. developer resources are scarce for sparc another option for linux

Re: sparc-linux

2005-02-03 Thread Jim Watson
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:41:25PM -0600, Benjamin Case wrote: > I have just installed Debian on my Sparc Ultra2 . > > I would like to install the Java Runtime Environment on my system. > > Can blackdown.org help me get the JRE installed on my sparc-linux system Hi Ben, I am running blackdown

Re: Licensing questions

2005-01-07 Thread Jim Watson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:08:01PM -0600, Marc St-Jean wrote: > > > Karl was the first contact I tried two months ago but no reply. I'll > send you a private email if you don't mind verifying have the right > address. Some the pages on the site may have an old address. > I am very interested i

status of sparc linux java porting

2005-01-03 Thread Jim Watson
Hi, I could not find any recent mention about the sparc linux port, since the 1.4.1 release. Are there any specific problems or is it just a lack of time etc? I would like to try building this myself. Are the blackdown diffs available, I could not find any links? thanks jim -

Re: Java Clipboard operations on Linux

1999-03-19 Thread Jim Watson
Subject: Java Clipboard operations on Linux >The Java Clipboard APIs seem to follow the paradigm of the Windows >Clipboard (ie. one application copies text to the clipboard, and then >another gets the text from the clipboard). This is platform specific. java-linux port and the sun source code u

Re: Clipboard cut & paste and JVM/X/Swing

1999-03-09 Thread Jim Watson
This was the first thing I looked at in the source, the reference to "CLIPBOARD" is still hard coded in the source which I think is calling native code to set up the selection using XLib, atoms and all that, so I would guess the answer must be no. I think this is a platform specific issue for X.

Re: JDK 1.2

1999-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
When the jdk1.2 diffs are released, do we need a working jdk1.2 to do the build? and if so, how was the first port built? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Porting JDK1.1.7 to Linux

1999-02-12 Thread Jim Watson
It is caused by a empty line at the end of the source for appletviewer! this causes a "\" to appear in the diff file. my versions of patch\diff get upset by this. in which case it has to be removed from the diff file by hand in order to get things working. > >>>I can not tell why this would hap

Re: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-12 Thread jim watson
I have NT4 and Linux on separate partitions. NT has a boot loader, which can run msdos, i just put a autoexec.bat file to run loadlin with the kernel in the dos directory, and away it goes - under this arrangement i think NT does not have any way to even know linux is there, but it had to be NT

Re: linux

1998-11-19 Thread jim watson
Mehrdad, if you have slackware 3.3, you may need the libc5 version of jdk. when i had slackware 3.4, it did not have glibc or bunzip2, Unless you have installed these yourself, you will need the libc5 and tar.gz version such as - ftp://ce.usu.edu/pub/mirror/linux/JDK/JDK-1.1.7/i386/libc5/v1a/jdk

Re: Java Web Server1.1 on Linux

1998-10-29 Thread jim watson
jim watson wrote: is the diff out of date? Hmmm... or do i need to get the JavaWebServer 1.1.2 upgrade first, before applying the diffs for the 1.1 "final"?

Re: Java Web Server1.1 on Linux

1998-10-29 Thread jim watson
> Matt Zagni wrote:Is there an easy way to apply the diff's, or is it a manual i went and got the JavaWebServer1.1 and applied the diffs from http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/products.html most of the diffs succeeded so i guess i have done it correctly, but a number of the diffs rejected: it

Re: Clipboard interaction between Swing/JDK and X11

1998-10-29 Thread jim watson
the conclusion i have reached (after much agony) is that java is only required to support copy and paste from java to java, otherwise it is platform specific, and not a java problem...can someone confirm this is correct? thanks jim watson

Re: Ok...

1998-10-29 Thread jim watson
mklinux and build something with minor changes using the v0 diffs - email me when you have the diffs...but be warned this is strictly unofficial, just something to play with while we are waiting jim watson

Re: Error: Can't load libXpm.so.4

1998-10-29 Thread jim watson
I got slackware 3.5 late july but do not recall having any problems with jdk116v5, it ran ok "out of the box", email me direct if you would like to find out what is different in our installations, jim watson hiro wrote: > Hello > > > I am using slackware 3.5. I have i

Re: Java Web Server1.1 on Linux

1998-10-26 Thread jim watson
diff's etc. This is only my opinion, but there is no substitute but to read some books, i got SAMS "Slackware Linux Unleashed" and WROX "Beginning Linux Programming". The software is free but you need to spend some $$$ to find out how to use it... jim watson

Re: Clipboard interaction between Swing/JDK and X11

1998-10-26 Thread jim watson
CLIPBOARD is hard coded in lesstif(and motif?) XA_CUT_BUFFER0 is hard coded in xterm

Re: JDK1.2 Port to Linux?

1998-10-26 Thread jim watson
Daniel Harris wrote: > any info of plans on a JDK1.2 port... last Saturday, Steve Byrne wrote: "...we haven't advertized the fact until now that Sun has licensed the JDK 1.2 pre-release sources to the porting team and that we are starting to work with the 1.2 port. Being a full licensee (just

Re: Is there a decent file explorer for Linux?

1998-10-26 Thread jim watson
I have looked at http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/mailinglists.html jim watson

Re: Is there a decent file explorer for Linux?

1998-10-26 Thread jim watson
Chi-Ming Yang wrote: > Hi there, >Is there a decent file explorer (manager) for Linux? try this, it will make any sissie feel like a geek... > http://people.mainz.netsurf.de/~bolik/tkdesk/

Re: Clipboard interaction between Swing/JDK and X11

1998-10-24 Thread jim watson
s both the cutbuffer and the CLIPBOARD. So there must be a better way... (i am using slackware 3.5) jim watson

Re: Clipboard interaction between Swing/JDK and X11

1998-10-23 Thread jim watson
ing/JDK related or is it another XFree86 problem ? I think the question now is: There are two clipboards in my linux X setup - - one clipboard is used by awt and xterm; - the other clipboard is used by swing and xclipboard; so how to get everything using the one clipboard? jim watson

Re: Clipboard interaction between Swing/JDK and X11

1998-10-22 Thread jim watson
ing/JDK related or is it another XFree86 problem ? I got copy and paste working ok betwee two separate java applications in separate linux processes like this, using ctrl-c and ctrl-v : $ java Class1 & $ java Class2 so the X part of the task must be working ok? jim watson

Re: Working Button mnemonics under Linux Java?

1998-10-21 Thread jim watson
i make it say KeyChar='i' and modifiers=Alt ? thanks jim watson = import java.util.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class Keys extends Frame implements KeyListener{ Keys(){

Re: Slackware and static versus ELF

1998-10-20 Thread jim watson
only need set the PATH, thats all... jim watson

Re: installation?

1998-10-19 Thread jim watson
in the docs at: http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/relnotes/demos.html jim watson

Re: libawt.so purgatory

1998-10-18 Thread jim watson
ing NS_JAVA=true in a otherwise good setup... regards jim watson

Re: Working Button mnemonics under Linux Java?

1998-10-16 Thread jim watson
press when i hit the spacebar...! jim watson import com.sun.java.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class HelloSwing extends JFrame implements ActionListener { private JLabel label; private static String labelPrefix = "Number of button clicks: ";

Re: libXm.so.2 and RPM JDK installation on RedHat 5.1

1998-10-14 Thread jim watson
v2... Then i got the lesstif source and rebuilt after running configure with the motif 2 option set ,i recall i still had to make a symbolic link then as it produced libXm.so.2.0 regards jim watson

Re: Newbie...classpaths

1998-10-14 Thread jim watson
f with a non-standard setup regards jim watson

Re: Newbie...

1998-10-12 Thread jim watson
rk because the compiler or interpreter loads a crusty old class file instead of the one you want. An old, out-of-date CLASSPATH variable is a fruitful source of confusing problems. " jim watson

Re: JDK 1.1.7

1998-10-12 Thread jim watson
by the way, in iomgr.c you may have to tell it to open something... "sbb: you need to open libc by hand -- good luck -- most of the + * " jw

Re: JDK 1.1.7

1998-10-12 Thread jim watson
Filipe Custsdio wrote: > I spent this weekend trying to get JDK 1.1.7 to compile. After patching > the sources with the JDK1.1.6v5 diffs, I applied the diffs that "patch" > rejected manually. I did the same using slackware libc5, it works ok, but i only applied the rejects which were absolutely

JDK 1.1.7

1998-10-08 Thread jim watson
pGetIconImageSize. The only problem i have found when running is that it does not find the shared libraries :^( Perhaps someone has had the same experience and could correspond direct with me about this, otherwise i will spend my time usefully reading some more while i wait for the proper diffs. thanks jim

Re: Problem running/installing JDK

1998-10-07 Thread jim watson
ux file in the distribution you have gotten, also read these: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/README.ftp http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/FAQ-java-linux-2.html#ss2.3 regards, jim watson

Re: JDK 1.2

1998-09-30 Thread jim watson
Flag wrote: > Is there the jdk 1.2 for Linux?!?!?!? > > Thanks There is some information in the FAQ at - http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/faq/FAQ-java-linux.html 2.7 When is the JDK 1.2 Going to be Released for Linux? According to Steve Byrne on Monday, May 26th 1998: JavaSoft

Re: SWING INSTALL

1998-09-19 Thread jim watson
Syed, Cynthia export works in bash, but i have found i also need to add the current directory "." to the classpath to make this work, like this jim watson > CLASSPATH=/iusr/local/swing-1.0.2/swingall.jar:. > export CLASSPATH

Re: problem with reading stdout from a child process under jdk-1.1.6

1998-09-19 Thread jim watson
This code works fine with jdk1.1.6v4a , it gets stdout and stderr back from running "ls" i am using slackware 3.5 with libc5 Mark Hofmann wrote: > Hi all, > I encountered a problem when I start a prog from my > java-prog and > try to get the stdout or stderr. > The problem is, that I wrote the c

RS232/Java

1998-09-04 Thread Jim Watson
ource code that already does this so I can see how to do it. Thanks in advance. Jim \\\|/// \\ - - // (--@ @--) +-oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------+ | Jim Watson MCI (Sri Lanka)| | e-mail: [EMAIL