If anybody else has a non-existent terminal screen, and needs to write some new commands for java, I learned that it is caused by a font problem (as many things in the Mac are). if the typeface 'Monaco' isn't in your computer any longer thanTerminal won't work or produce a screen. In 'addressbook', if Helvetica is missing, same thing.Those fonts have to be in the System folder which has about 19 fonts, all apple fonts. I lost Monaco and Helvetica (I have a different one that isn't acceptable to Mac), and can't recover it. So those programs don't work for me.


ALSO, MAKE SURE you name any extra font folders sitting on your desktop waiting to be loaded, something slightly different than 'fonts' because the Mac will take the initiative and load the fonts (it happened to me!)...i.e. names like fontz, fontetc, etc, work.


Does anyone know of a place I can get Apple's Monaco and Helvetica? I tried Limewire, and, gratefully got a thousand other fonts, but not those.
Thanks.

P list in prefrances, is the file called P list or is this a nick/short name for it? i cant see anything called "p list" in my prefrance folder.


preferences.plist is THIS what i am looking for? its created by the finder/computer

To reinstall the Java or security update, you'll need to delete the equivalent .pkg file version from the receipts folder. You get the "null" message in the Apple installer when a OS X thinks a more recent version is installed. Double-click the harddrive icon, open the Library, open the Receipts folder, then find the file: Java142Update2.pkg or JavaSecurityUpdate4.pkg (whichever is applicable), delete it and try again. eg: Receipts folder sample image

Apparently the Softw Update program which installs over the net can result in incomplete/corrupt installations. That's why we recommend re-installing using the standalone/"offline" installers.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...update142.html

Or/& http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301380

BTW this applies to OS 10.3 users

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"you cannot install this software on this volume, This volume does not contain a version of java web start that needs updating"

is what i get + a masive stop sign with a ! in it on the HD icon.

i have also used the find app to find all LW files and deleated em, downloaded a older version of LW, and it still did the same thing.

well i give up trying to sort this one out. Downloaded a Gnutella P2P called Acqlite, it conects to the Gnutella server. it works fine.. so far.

i will keep an eye on LW as i do like using it. but if OSX and LW cant come up with a proper patch/fix for everyone then i am gonna just keep using what ever else is available and does work.

Well I'm glad I spent so much time explaining what to do when mac os gives that warning of unable to install. By gads, why not buy a pc instead. Are mac users really so ... well i guess i could have printed it in double size but doubt it'd make much diff to some people. Good luck with aquaflux. I'm off to view how well my LW is downlding as it always does. Total bandwidth op.

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

you did a good job explaining what to do. and i did what you said and i still didnt get anywhere. spent 3 days on this trying to get it to work. even went to java main site to DL java web start bits.. nada.
i will keep checking LW, once a month or so. but i do have things to get on with now i have upgraded from OS9.2.2 (grudgingly) have had a few teething probs but all are sorted now. and i havent even crashed the mac today, so must be doing well!

Can you tell me where to get that program?

do a search on google, its how i found it.