Re: The San Francisco Project

Booth

At 07:46 PM 11/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>on 11/14/97at 02:57 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir Vern Hamberg
><hambergv@goldengate.net> said:
>
>
The San Francisco project's downloadable
>
>stuff is Windows 95 only.  So what's the point?  Are they trying to
>
>out-Windows Windows?
>
>
But the Java classes are not Windows-specific. Once you get them
>
downloaded, you can put them anywhere, right?
>
>I sure hope I am wrong (that would not be a wild new experience btw) but
>my reading was that it was 95/NT only.  I even responded to the site's
>comment button and got a pleasant reply.  It seemed patronizing to me as
>non-Win95 user so I just deleted it and plan to forgot about Java for
>awhile.

I hear you—it's ironic that IBM isn't putting out an OS/2 version.

The file you download is simply a self-extracting zip-file. But what it
extracts are Win 95/NT setup/install programs that further extract things.
For now, I imagine you'd need to do the installation on a Win 95/NT box,
then copy the various classes, .jar files, etc., over to your OS/2—or have
them served from the Win 95/NT box.

My point is that the San Francisco classes are not platform-specific. It's
unfortunate that the installation, however, seems to be thus.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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