diff --git a/bin/miso-viewer b/bin/miso-viewer
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--- a/bin/miso-viewer
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-`dirname $0`/runjava com.threerings.miso.viewer.ViewerApp $*
diff --git a/bin/runjava b/bin/runjava
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--- a/bin/runjava
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-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-
-use Getopt::Std;
-
-my $usage = "Usage: $0 [-p pid_file] args\n";
-
-# locations of stuff
-chomp($location = `dirname $0`);
-
-# get the server root by popping the /bin off of our parent directory
-@parts = split(/\//, $location);
-pop(@parts);
-my $root = join("/", @parts);
-
-# but we're in the test directory, so we want up one
-$realroot = $root;
-$root = "$root/..";
-
-my $java = "java";
-
-# determine our machine architecture
-my $ostype = `uname -s`;
-my $machtype = `uname -m`;
-chomp($ostype);
-chomp($machtype);
-my $arch = "$machtype-$ostype";
-
-# add our native libraries to the runtime library path
-my $libs = "$root/lib/$arch";
-my $libpath = $ENV{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH"};
-
-if (defined $libpath) {
-    $ENV{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH"} = "$libs:$libpath";
-} else {
-    $ENV{"LD_LIBRARY_PATH"} = $libs;
-}
-
-# put everything in our class path
-my $classpath = "-classpath $root/tests/dist/classes:$root/dist/classes";
-
-# add zip and jar files from our lib/ directory and the global Java
-# libraries directory
-my @dirs = ( "$root/dist/lib" );
-foreach $dir (@dirs) {
-    next unless (defined $dir);
-    if (opendir(DIR, $dir)) {
-        foreach $lib (grep { /.(zip|jar)/ && -f "$dir/$_" } readdir(DIR)) {
-            # skip nenya-*.jar because we have the nenya build directory
-            # in our classpath
-            $classpath .= ":$dir/$lib" unless $lib =~ /nenya/;
-        }
-        closedir DIR;
-    }
-}
-
-# finally add the standard classes
-$classpath = "$classpath";
-
-# specify our server root (this is for server code)
-my $rootarg = "-Dresource_dir=$realroot/rsrc -Dtest_dir=$realroot";
-
-my $pid_file = undef;
-my $i = 0;
-
-# strip out the -p args (we'd use getopt() but the damned thing provides
-# no way of escaping arguments so that we can pass args to runjava that
-# get passed down to the JVM)
-for ($i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
-    my $arg = $ARGV[$i];
-
-    # stop when we see -- (and strip it out because Java don't dig --)
-    if ($arg eq "--") {
-        splice(@ARGV, $i, 1);
-        last;
-    }
-
-    if ($arg eq "-p") {
-        $pid_file = $ARGV[$i+1];
-        splice(@ARGV, $i, 2);
-        $i -= 1; # decrement i so that things stay in sync
-    }
-}
-
-# log the pid file if requested to do so
-print `echo $$ > $pid_file` if (defined $pid_file);
-
-my $cmd = "$java -mx256M $classpath $rootarg " . join(" ", @ARGV);
-# print "$cmd\n";
-exec($cmd);