[4580] in java-interest
Re: Opening a Local File
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edith Au)
Sun Jan 7 23:42:50 1996
To: Michael Afergan <mikea@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:08:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Edith Au <edith@pencom.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9601080201.AA14934@life.ai.mit.edu> from "Michael Afergan" at Jan 7, 96 08:56:42 pm
Hi,
According to http://java.sun.com/sfaq/, applets can read/write files if you
set the environment variable acl.read=read_file and acl.write=write_file
in you $HOME/.hotjava/properties file. This is only true for the appletviewer
not Netscape. I have not tested this out yet. Did anybody try?
> To answer my earlier question, java applets are not able to open local
> files (unless you do a lot of playing around - and then only in the
> appletviewer). Therefore, if there is any way of making my applet dependant
> on my computer in any way? (i.e., can I pass a string to my applet from my
> computer in any way other than applet tag parameters)?
>
> -- Mike
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