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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 22:14:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Chapman <chapman@u.washington.edu>
To: Paul Grunwald <rubicon@nmia.com>
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Subject: Re: Local Files with Netscape 2.0b3
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On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Paul Grunwald wrote:

> I have got the JDK working with the appletviewer and javac (Thanks
> Randy!).  Netscape 2.0b3 will not load an applet when the html file is
> opened locally ("Applet can't start: applet not initalized").  I moved the
> html and class file to a real httpd server and the applet worked when the
> real url was hit.

This appears to be common to all Netscape versions.

>   Is this a known problem and/or is there a workaround? 
> Is this documented someplace?

I believe if you add the directory your applet is in to the CLASSPATH
before starting Netscape, it should deal with it.

Alternatively, this is Linux.  Web servers are trivial to set up =)
Even without root access.

--randy