uvcceet wrote:

>--- In os2user{at}yahoogroups.com, "Bryann Paula Melvin"

>wrote:
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>>Innotek Java  may work somewhat, sometimes on W4 FP15.
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>The word eCS does not even appear on the innotek site, so I hope it
>works on OS/2, or what good is it? 
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>>The eCS upgrade about 70 bucks will give you both jAVA 131 AND UPDated
>>MPTS/tcpip 
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>Not worth it, to me. I am not impressed with what I read and hear
>about eCS, support, and its future, but that is just me and my
>impression. 
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Your choice, of course, but I highly recommend eComStation.  There are 
really interesting things coming down the pike.

>The motivation for all this is a neat tool on www.furl.net that I use
>on my windows machines, but it does not install on OS/2, and I was
>thinking it might be lack of java on my system, so I was hoping to
>just download Java and install it to see if that allowed the furl tool
>to install. Beyond that, everything here works, and I don't have the
>motivation to chase down updates, or spend money to maybe get one
>thing working. 
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>>these updates TO wARP4 can be installed without INSTALLING Ecs btw...
>>i've done this.   
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>I will keep that in mind. 
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>>Confused  me now !!! Innotek is the company. JRE is the runtime only
>>SDK is the Java developers kit
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>Innotek offers two JREs. One called Innotek Runtime, and the other
>OS/2 runtime. Different size files by several megs. That confuses me.
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The Innotek runtime is necessary to run the Innotek Java runtime (older 
versions were built differently and had the runtime built into the Java 
which was much less efficient)

>>W4 fp 15 is OK as long as you have updated MPTS/TCPIP  otherwise
>>innotek may or may not work...131 works well with w4 fp15 as does I
>>believe the new Goldencode Java...but I haven't bought that.
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>I have 131 but have never gotten it to work. I appreciate the heads up
>on the TCPIP stuff, as Innotek never mentions that.
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>I think I will pass, but I appreciate the information. Saved me a lot
>of modem download time.. 
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>Best Regards,
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>John
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