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RE: JAVAC and Win'95 final beta
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kropf)
Fri Sep 8 16:14:44 1995
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 10:42:11 -0400
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: Peter Kropf <peterk@info1.com>
At 04:03 PM 9/7/95 -0700, you 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? Is it a consequence of using the beta version of win'95, or do I
>>>have a corrupt javac.exe file? Thanks to anyone who can help.
>>
>>Sorry if your question has been already answered. MS Exchange
>inadvertantly(or at least I did) deleted the last 50+ message headers.
>>
>>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.
I had the same problem with the copy I downloaded from the WWW server
using Netscape. After being frustrated for quite a bit, I tried downloading
the hotjava-alpha3-win32-x86.exe file using ftp. And what would you know,
it works just fine.
Peter K
Information One, Inc.
peterk@info1.com
http://www.info1.com
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