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From: David Moss
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:14

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In article <428c7f50$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>, info@petermount.au.com 
says...
> Hi
> 
> I met this confusor store owner today as I'm looking for a new confusor 
> later this year. He made the claim that Java won't run properly (or not 
> at all) on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2. Mind you he confused Java with 
> Javasript so I went away thinking he didn't know what he was talking about.

Sounds like you got the right impression.
I installed Java on XP and SP2 without any problems.
The only issue I noticed is that ZP associates .jar files with its 
automatic zip folder system rather than Java. Double clicking a .jar 
opens it for viewing by default. When I installed the JRE it fixed it 
up.

DM

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