Installation

Here are some sketchy installation notes.

General Installation Instructions

The simplest possible installation for WebEQ merely requires unpacking the distribution file. You should be able to look at the examples in the "latex" and "plist" directories with Netscape 2.0 or greater. You should also be able to view them with the appletviewer from the JDK. Note, you will be opening these pages as "files" as opposed to "locations". For most things, this causes no problems, but applet security restrictions will end up dictating where you put the WebEQ class and font files in relation to your HTML source files.

The next level of sophistication is to install the "classes" directory tree somewhere that is accessible to a your web server. In this case, web pages anywhere should be able to reference this location as the codebase. For example, if you unpack the distribution file somewhere that is visible to your web server, you can look at the example files in Netscape by opening them as locations in the usual fashion.

Unix Specific Installation Instructions

The third level of sophistication is to set a CLASSPATH environment variable which points to the "classes" directory before invoking Netscape or the Appletviewer. For Netscape to work properly, the CLASSPATH must also contain the location of the Netscape system classes. A typical example looks something like:

CLASSPATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape3/:/java/webeq/classes

In this case, you should be able to look at pages located anywhere, opened either as file or location. Moreover, the WebEQ class files should load locally from the directory given in the CLASSPATH. However, there are some subtleties that I don't yet understand, and it seems to work a bit erratically.

Windows Specific Installation Instructions

To get Netscape to use locally installed classes under Win95, it appears you need to move the contents of the "classes" directory into the directory where Netscape stores its own class files. This is because under Windows, the CLASSPATH appears to be set at the time Netscape is installed.

Typically this directory is something like

C:\Program Files\Netscape\Navigator\Program\java\classes\bin

Also, I have only gotten this to work for http access and not file access. However, I think this reflects a bug in the program and not an inherent limitation.

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