Including HotJava System State in Bug Reports

To help us better track down a bug you are reporting, it is often helpful if you also include the system state of the HotJavaTM Browser when the bug occurs. In order to do this, a log of the HotJava session must be recorded.

On Solaris systems: To enable logging, start the HotJava Browser from a command line with the `-log logfile` option. For example, to send log comments to the file /tmp/log, you would start the HotJava Browser with this command: `hotjava -log /tmp/log`. To send the log comments to the window where you started the HotJava Browser, use: `hotjava -log /dev/tty`. Alternatively, you can set the environment variable HOTJAVA_LOG to specify the log file.

To get the HotJava system state, the HotJava Browser must be running in the foreground. If you started the HotJava Browser with the command `hotjava -log logfile &`, the `&` put HotJava into the background. In this case, type `fg` to bring the HotJava process into the foreground.

Once you are running the HotJava Browser with logging enabled and as a foreground process, you can get the state on Solaris systems by typing `Ctrl-\` in the window that the HotJava Browser was started in.

On Windows systems: Logging is automatically enabled if you start the HotJava Browser using hotjava_g.exe. This gives you console output, and you can type `Ctrl-BREAK` to get a stack trace when reporting bugs.

If you prefer to have the output go to a log file, either set the environment variable HOTJAVA_LOG to specify the log file, or run hotjava_g.exe with the `-log logfile` option.

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