Instructions and requirements for loading Geninfer.

Geninfer requires a Netscape browser. Geninfer is not Internet Explorer compatible.

Geninfer uses the Java Swing API. Your browser must be Swing compatible in order to run Geninfer. Because no browsers currently support Swing, you must :

  1. Download SwingJarFiles.zip which contains the necessary Swing Jar files.

    2. For Windows:

  2. Copy the Swing JAR files into Netscape's Java\Classes subdirectory.
  3. Restart Netscape.

    4. For UNIX:

  4. Set the CLASSPATH variable to include the Swing JAR files. This may be done by opening the .environment file and adding setenv CLASSPATH ${CLASSPATH}:path to the JAR file including the name of the jar file followed by colon and the path to the next JAR file.
  5. Restart Netscape.

Installing the Java 1.2 plug-in will not work because the the plug-in prevents signed applets from functioning properly. For more information about making Netscape Swing compatible, see http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/archive/web_arch/applets_arch/applets.html.

Currently Geninfer is not encrypted, so to allow it to access your file system with your permission, you must activate codebase principals in Netscape. In order to activate codebase principals, you will need to edit the file "prefs.js", which is located in your Netscape Users/ directory (the exact location of the Users directory varies from platform to platform and machine to machine.) Be sure to edit this file only while all instances of Communicator are shut down, as Communicator will overwrite prefs.js when it exits. Now, add this line to prefs.js:

user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);

For more information about activating codebase principals, see http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/security/sectn2.html

 

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