Dear Paula,
It is a Mac JVM problem that is fixed if you install MRJ 2.1.4 and
use the latest IE. I haven't tried the latest Netscape but hope that
the Sun/Netscape/AOL alliance may finally produce a JDK1.1 JVM
that works.
Jeremy Parsons
Paula Burch wrote:
> The sequencing core provides traces to users of various computer
> systems, Mac, Unix, or MS Windows. We have installed a java
> traceviewer that works great in Netscape on the Unix or PC side,
> but fails to work in either Netscape or Internet Explorer on the Mac.
> The easy answer would be to just give our Mac users their own trace
> viewing program, such as the free one from Perkins Elmer.
>> The problem is that trace files moved to the sequence repository
> machine from the sequencing Mac can be used only by a Mac, not by
> Unix, if tranferred as a Mac binary. If the trace files are moved as
> 'raw data', they work great in the java trace viewing program, but
> are utterly unusable on a Mac.
>> How can I make 'raw data' trace files work on a Mac? I was told
> something I didn't understand about a missing 'resource fork' that
> the Mac needs. I generally stick to Unix and am mystified. Is
> there any way to fake the resource fork, or any other way to make one
> transfer format work for all three of the more popular computer
> platforms, Mac, Unix, and PC?
>> We cannot ask the sequencing core personnel to transfer the trace
> files to some labs in Mac binary format and to other labs in 'Raw
> Data' format.
>> Thanks for any help you can provide....
>> ________________________________________________________________________
> Paula E. Burch, Ph.D. Molecular Biology Computation Resource
> Baylor College of Medicine, BCMM M220 voice: 713.798.6023
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