- From: Christopher William Turner <cwturner@cycom.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:16:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: tank@hal-pc.org, "www-jigsaw@w3.org" <www-jigsaw@w3.org>
It seems that netscape tries to execute attached jar files, thinking that they are smart updates to netscape. To defeat this mistake, use the *right* mouse button to click on the attachment link and select "save to disk" from the resulting pop-up menu. The jar I sent earlier was not corrupt. It contains java source files only so is obviously not directly executable. The files can be listed by "jar tvf name.jar" and extracted by "jar xvf name.jar". I decided to use jar as a packaging mechanism rather than zip because anyone who needs a java1.2 source file must have a JDK1.2 and hence the jar tool for their platform. Also it does not attempt to mangle file names or contents. -- Chris Turner, http://www.cycom.co.uk/
Received on Monday, 21 December 1998 03:56:38 UTC