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Java Workshop 2.0 installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Aug 28 16:39:40 1998
To: lerman@MIT.EDU, jud@MIT.EDU, software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, seth@lcs.MIT.EDU, mcmillan@lcs.MIT.EDU, nathanw@MIT.EDU,
cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:39:13 EDT
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
The Sun Java Workshop 2.0 integrated Java development environment has been
installed on Athena for Suns (no SGI or Linux versions currently available).
Please read file /mit/workshop/README.athena for licensing and other
information.
It is based on an internal, integrated copy of JDK release
1.1.3. There is no feasible way to have it use newer releases of the
JDK, such as the 1.1.6 release currently installed on Athena.
To use it, do:
add workshop; jws &
at the Athena prompt. At first launch, it will create two directories in the
user's home directory: .jws2.0, and jws, that contain configuration information
and data files (including some demos); these directories should not be deleted
(except to clear some corrupted files as described below).
Printing will not work; workaround: print to a file and lpr the file.
It is possible for some glitches to corrupt some of a user's local
configuration files; when this happens, a launch attempt will result
in an error message:
SIGBUS 10* bus error
si_signo [10]: SIGBUS 10* bus error
si_errno [0]: Error 0
si_code [1]: BUS_ADRALN [addr: 0xefff234d]
followed by a long dump of various components. This can be fixed by
deleting the local jws and .jws2.0 directories. It is not known if
there is a less drastic way to remedy this at this time.
Any configuration-related problems (or less drastic fixes to the
problem above) should be reported directly to me.
Alex
