In a message of , Cameron Clark (1:3811/350) writes: 
 RS>> :) Okay and with Java can this only be run under Unix as done with
 RS>> GNU
 CC> C or
 RS>> can you run it under any OS that takes it?
 CC> Any machine that has 'java interpreter' software. Unlike C++
 CC> (another poor attempt to stay on topic), Java compiles to a
 CC> standardize 'byte code' [not to proprietary object code like C++
 CC> uses]. This byte code can be run on any machine using the
 CC> interpreter. I've seen unix/solaris, win95/nt interpreters so far.
So this interpreter has to be built into the OS?
 
 CC> Unlike C++ object files, the .class files (the compiled byte code)
 CC> is meant to be ran anywhere. I'm not to sure on how portable the
 CC> actual source code itself is (since MS and Sun compilers have some
 CC> inconsistancies).
But the compiled code works on all interpresters? So no linking is used as in 
C?
Cya!
Rory Street
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