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Re: Problem with appletviewer/Win95

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Aitken)
Thu Nov 30 23:57:42 1995

Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:47:54 -0700
From: garya@village.org (Gary Aitken)
To: Stefan Verstege <hhs@xs4all.nl>, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199511292256.AA14828@xs1.xs4all.nl>

>Can anyone help me with my JAVA problem. I wanna preview my beta applets with
>the appletviewer, but the only thing i get is: starting applet and then 
>nothing happens.
>When i choose restart or info from the menu the appletviewer hangs and create 
a
>error on my dos box. I really don't know whats wrong here.

Here is Thomas Ball's official answer, from a month or so ago:

>As part of initializing Java, the Java network library attempts to make
>a WINSOCK connection.  If it's not available, it will timeout.  If you
>have MSN set up, just click the cancel button when the dialer dialog
>comes up.

In other words, let it sit there for a minute or so and it will timeout, and 
then the applet will load ok.

>>  Aside: Do 2.0 Navigator and Java still require Microsoft's winsock, or will
>>  a Trumpet winsock work as well?
>
>Any WINSOCK compliant product should work, but we can't help anyone set 
>it up correctly.

Gary Aitken		garya@village.org
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