[1585] in java-interest
RE: JAVAC and Win'95 final beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terence Chr Haddock)
Fri Sep 8 15:31:46 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 12:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Terence Chr Haddock <haddock@chopin.udel.edu>
To: John Moore <john@anasazi.com>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9509072303.AA26668@ds9.anasazi.com>
On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, John Moore wrote:
> At 12:37 AM 9/7/95 -0600, Nelson Yu wrote:
> >
> >Peter,
> >
> >>I have been trying to compile the Hello world applet with java 1.0alpha3 on
> >>the win'95 final beta. When I drop to the DOS shell, I keep getting the
> >>message, "this program cannot run in DOS mode. Has anyone else had >this
> >>problem?
> >
> >Use the 'Run' command on the Taskbar, because java, javac, etc. aren't DOS
> programs and Win95 doesn't seem to have a console mode like Win NT does(damn!).
> >
> >
>
> This should not be necessary. If you use the DOS shell that comes with
> Windows95 rather than the one left over from your previous MSDOS, you should
> be able to run java or javac without a problem. I do.
>
Note that if you run the DOS shell from Windows 95, and bring up
the "Properties" dialog box from the system menu, there's a little button
called "Advanced". Click on that, and it bring up another dialog box with
some check buttons, the top check button is "Prevent MS-DOS based
programs from detecting Windows". If you have that checked java will
think it's running from the DOS prompt and give you that error. Also, at
your DOS prompt, type "VER". If you don't see "Windows 95", then you're
using the wrong shell. I had the same problem at first, I was just
fooling with the controls and forgot I had that checked.
- Terence C Haddock
haddock@udel.edu
http://acm.cis.udel.edu/~haddock
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