Re:out of the box behavior

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:

> At 10:38 AM +1000 21/2/97, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> >I just downloaded alpha5 (zip version) onto my win95 box running jdk1.02
> >and unzipped it.
> >from inside the unzipped directory I type:
> >
> >java w3c.jigsaw.Main -root jigsaw
> >
> >It loads the properties and then gives an error:
> >
> >Unable to load dll unix.dll
> >
>
> Not sure why it does look for it, but unix code stuff is supposed to be
> trigered only if -user -group or -chroot was given on command line (this
> was basically so that Jigsaw could run on port 80 on unix - as in start as
> root and then change to other user/group ID).
>
> You should not need unix.dll at all. It should just never be called or even
> if called (by you giving -user params) Jigsaw should just exit with a
> warning message.
>
> The error could be from an optimistic classloader(should not) or from a
> Jigsaw bug (but the code seem to be clean).
>
> What is the runtime you are using on Win95?
>

I get this same error on an NT4.0 machine.  Jigsaw seems to works just
fine, however.  In fact, my upgrade from a3 to a5 was very smooth (once I
figured out where the Attribute classes were moved to).

Higg.

Received on Saturday, 22 February 1997 22:55:19 UTC