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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:02:55 -0400, Alan Shiers wrote:

> I just noticed that when I loaded up J2SDK onto Linux
> that there is no javaw command.  Does anybody know why
> this command has been removed from the Linux distribution?  

There never has been a 'javaw' on Linux, or any distribution aside from 
Windows.  The reason that 'javaw' exists is because Windows has a very 
strange notion that an application that uses a window is a completely 
different thing than one that uses a console window.

Unix based systems do not have this dumb idea.  An application is an 
application.  It may write to standard output and standard error, and 
those streams may be directed at a console window (or maybe not).  An 
application might also use a windowing system (such as X11) to open a 
window.  There is no reason the same application cannot do both.

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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