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Don't do it!

Posted by william on May 10, 2001 at 10:19 AM

My only answer to this is not to set a CLASSPATH variable at all - invoke your compiler with the classpath option, and if that becomes too tedious (if your classpath becomes large), write a script that invokes your compiler with the necessary options.

The other alternative, where you are using external libraries, is to place them in the standard extensions directory of your jre.

> I saw couple of discussion on classpath. But still I am not clear how to set this environmental variable. How can we do in in UNIX. A clarification is greately appriciated. thanks.