Well, for better or worse of "staying late", I did make some progress... > -----Original Message----- > From: Emerson, Tom [...] Our options for getting it there are basically twofold: > > 1) install the "willow" client [3rd party $$$ software] [I should have mentioned we "already have this", or at least, "some version of it" -- don't think it is the latest, but in any case the killer is that we'd have to write our own app to "talk to it..."] > 2) install an already-written generic java based "client" [...] > ** the problem we're coming up with now is that the files > are "corrupt" after the transfer Solved this: extracted the files on a "real unix system" [linux] and used the real tar program to package the files instead of winzip [which, while it can READ and APPEND TO tar files, refuses to CREATE them "just because"...] after a few trips through scp/ssh to & from my server at home, the files are successfully "untarred" [I believe] because > /usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2/bin/jar tvf AnyOfTheFiles.jar can now read the files without errors > ** one thing that seems a bit strange [to me] is that he is > setting this HUGE classpath variable[...] careful reading of the "-h" output of the java interpreter/startup program pointed out the "-cp" parameter of the java interpreter, so after building this "huge" variable, the command /usr/local/java/latest/bin/java -cp $classpath the.main.routine.in.a.jar.file seems to not "choke" with a classnotfound error, instead I get pages of unresolved externals for things like "gethostbyname" and "stat", however this is after an "error" in the first place, so the whole "stack trace" starts with: DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: jio_fprintf ( LDRERR 103) DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: JNU_ThrowNullPointerException ( LDRERR 103) DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: JNU_ThrowInternalError ( LDRERR 103) DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: JNU_GetStringPlatformChars ( LDRERR 103) DYNAMIC LOADING UNRESOLVED EXTERNAL: JNU_ReleaseStringPlatformChars ( LDRERR 10 and goes on from there... * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *