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Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:29:22 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: VACP | Mozilla | Java 1.31

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In <3D333AFC.33AEC916@pacbell.net>, on 07/15/02
at 12:14 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>I'm about to install Mozilla into ECS, and wanted to scout out any
>"gotchas" ahead of time.

Well, a good hints and tips page is:

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html

I always recommend defining MOZILLA_HOME in config.sys

>1) The new release of BZIP2 mentioned on the VOICE list says you need
>some VACP runtime or library to use it. (A similar case to EMX ?) I'm

It's a programmer error. If the runtime is to be distributed with an app,
the programmer is supposed to rename the runtime and bind to it and
distribute it. If that wasn't done, bad programmers. I believe the most
recent tidy has the same defect.

>not sure why anyone might need BZIP (or RAR for that matter), when we

Because ZIP is not quite the standard you think it is in other parts of
the world.

>2) Wayne asked if there was a reason to prefer Mozilla 1.0 over 1.1a, and

If you are a cautious soul, v1.0 is supposedly more stable than v1.1a, but
that's a YMMV thing. To understand this difference see:

www.mozilla.org/roadmap

>I'd like to see that answer too. I would like to have Mozilla co-exist
>with the already installed 4.61, and perhaps just "adopt" its profiles &

It will co-exist just fine. You can have both running and loaded at the
same time. Mozilla will import your Netscape settings. After that, they
are independent. It can't be otherwise, because Mozilla's internal data
structures are too different.

>preferences. If there is some Skin or option to have Mozilla look / act
>more like 4.61 in its UI (except for 4.61 crashes, of course !), I'd

Read up on themes and skins.

>3) I've been looking over the Java 1.31 docs. The part about Known
>Limitations if it is the default Java -- certain app.s will fail,
>including LVMGUI and some TCP/IP stuff -- bothers me. I notice that my

IBM is very slow to update some stuff. Both the LVM and TCP configurators
have been updated to run with v1.3.1, probably as of MCP2.

>ECS install placed Java 131 first in Libpath, but not at all in Path or

The LIBPATH order is irrelvant beyond performance issues. There are no
conflicting DLL names.

>Classpath. So maybe I should just leave that alone ? If I can still use

A PATH setting is not needed unless you want to start java from the
command line.

>131 for Mozilla somehow (?), that would be fine.

The rules have changed for Java v1.3.x. CLASSPATH is only used to find
application classes.

v1.3.x works find with Mozilla. Just install the plugin correctly.

>must be there. Their presence may not be the same thing as their being
>active or the default, though ?

True. Keep in mind active is not the same as default and default depends
on context.

Steven

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