On 5 Jan 2005 at 14:16, echo wrote:

> Clear Day
> I have a couple dozen Java packages on my computer (all .zip
> files.....and yes, I have a .zip untility).
>
> What are they, what do they do, and more importantly, Do I Need Them
> ALL, or can I delete some or all of them?
>
> Thanks
>
> Martha Conolley

  Java is a programming language/environment which, amongst its other
capabilities, allows a web page to include code that is downloaded to the
browser and executed on the visitor's machine.  [Your spider-sense should be
tingling "Danger!" at this point.  Relax; Java is designed to minimize the
chance that this code can actually *harm* your machine or files, and the
bugs which have been found which allowed it to violate those safeguards have
been relatively few and quickly fixed.]

  If you delete those packages, AND IF you ever go back to the sites that
gave you those packages, they will detect that you don't have them and
automatically re-download them.  Unless you're on dial-up, you probably
won't even notice the extrat time that takes.

David Gillett

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