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Date:	Sun, 1 May 2005 23:10:12 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Convert to Java 1.4.2

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In <4275ACC0.3000008@gmail.com>, on 05/01/05
at 08:29 PM, "John A. Morrow, Jr." said:

>Well, this discussion has been somewhat enlightening. As far as I know, =

>I don't think I particularly need Java outside my web browser (Mozilla
>Firefox), so I haven't paid that much attention to it.

This is a reasonable conclusion. If you need java outside the browser an=
d
you don't have you will find out soon enough.

>I just assumed
>that the eCS 1.2 installer put a current version of Java on the hard
>drive.

This is true. Of course, that's not the only version it can put on your
hard drive and if you do a migrated install, it will leave the versions i=
t
does not change unchanged. (duh=AE).

> From reading the first few lines of the files, one assumes that running=

>one of the above will install IBM Java 1.3.1 or Innotek's 1.4.2.

This is true.

>I
>gather that just deleting the JAVA11 directory tree and related
>Config.sys entries will remove Java 1.1.8.

True although you forgot to recall that you might need to uninstall the
java11 plugin.

>I dimly recall that something
>required it - Feature Installer? Does one still need this?

I suspect you are confused. FI required Netscape. There was a time when=

Netscape/FI was required to install Java 1.3.1, but that is no longer the=

case.

Regards,

Steven

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