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Installation

The WebEQ distribution unpacks "/author", "/bin", "/src", "/mkfonts" and "/doc" directories. To use WebEQ in your web pages, you must place a copy of the /bin directory in a location accessible by your web server. This is the directory you must specify with the CODEBASE parameter of the APPLET tag, when invoking WebEQ from a web pages.

By default, The APPLET tag instructs WebEQ to look in the current directory for its files. Thus it is also possible to use WebEQ by placing .html files in the same directory as the WebEQ runtime files. However, using the CODEBASE parameter seems to help a bit with caching.

The .class, .tab and .gif files must all be located together in the same directory.

Local Installation

On Unix systems, it is possible to install WebEQ on the client machine, which largely eliminates the long delays associated with downloading the WebEQ class files. Netscape appears to search the CLASSPATH on the client machine for class files first. If it finds the WebEQ files, it load them locally and does not bring them over the net.

I presume this is also possible under Window and Mac OS, but I haven't been able to get it working properly yet.

To do a local installation under Unix, install the WebEQ class files in a directory on your system such as

/usr/local/lib/WebEQ/bin

Then append this path to your CLASSPATH environment variable. For example, if you are using a C shell, this will look something like

setenv CLASSPATH .:/usr/local/lib/netscape:/usr/local/lib/WebEQ/bin

Warning: Frequently, Netscape will be invoked by a script that explicitly sets the CLASSPATH for the process that Netscape is running in. If this is the case, you must modify this script, or take pains to invoke the Netscape executable directly.

Note: The CLASSPATH variable is also used by the Java Developers Kit. Typically you will need to set it differently for the JDK.

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