From: mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 10:55 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: RE: Java PDF viewer... how?

In article <009E3E03.BDC5B049@SendSpamHere.ORG>, system@SendSpamHere.ORG (Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-) writes:
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>Where do you get acrobat.jar?  When I clicked on the Java link, I received
>a viewer.zip file. 
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Starting in the directory where you have download viewer.zip

$ @sys$manager:java$setup
$ define classpath "/sys$common/java/lib/JDK118_CLASSES.ZIP:.:/dev/path/viewer.zip"
%DCL-I-SUPERSEDE, previous value of CLASSPATH has been superseded
$ java install

Note that the location of the viewer.zip file in the classpath appears to 
be critical.  If you reverse the order of the entries it looks like it's
doing an install but doesn't really.  A directory gets created, and a link
of some sort (what is that?) but no acrobat.jar.

If you have 1.16 change "118" to "116" in the above.

Better though to forget about this bloated pig of a program and use XPDF
instead.  Martin Zinser just emailed me that he's putting a new version up
on 

  http://www.decus.de:8080/www/vms/sw/xpdf.htmlx

later today.  The current version is 0.9 and it works very well using
a reasonable amount of memory.

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech 
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