The Weasel FAQ

  • Q: When I try and run Weasel offline it fails with an error 'Can't obtain local host address'

    A: Yes you should be able to run Weasel offline for testing purposes but you may need to setup a 'loopback' interface and manually set your local host name.
    On OS/2 some versions of IBM's TCP/IP seem to have problems resolving the local (loopback) host address after using PPP/SLIP dialup. Rebooting clears the error but I would like to know a solution to this one !

  • Q: How do I get a local copy of the generated file ?

    A: Weasel generates a temporary file called temp.tmp in the directory it was run from. This file is not deleted after processing but will be overwritten each time you run Weasel.

  • Q: Weasel doesn't work

    A: Note that Java is case sensitive even if your OS treats files in a non case sensitive way. The name of the Java class is 'Weasel', therefore you must type java Weasel and not java weasel or java WEASEL, to run it.
    Weasel has been tested on OS/2 with IBM's 1.0.1 and 1.02 Java support but should work on all platforms that has base Java application support.
    It does use some of the undocumented sun.* classes that the Sun JDK normally comes with, for performing the FTP upload operation. Specifically it uses the sun.net and sun.net.ftp packages.
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    Please email details of specific problems to the author (Stephen Summerfield)