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installing / running a .jar file...

Posted by Steven YaegerII on October 22, 2000 at 4:59 PM

Can anyone offer some insight on how to install OOPad? I'm
using JDK1.2 on WIN 98. It was after a few unsuccessful tries at
changing my AUTOEXEC.BAT that I became nervous to change anything
else. This is the response I got from the OOPad site:

"The java executable will need a classpath variable set.
Some people set it in their autoexec.bat or .profile, but this
is a basic idea. You will invoke a java app in a shell so set the
classpath in the shell. Set it in cpath.bat or in oopad.bat , the
shell takes the last of multiple values if you set it more than
once."

First off, OOPad is on my machine at C:\JCode\oopad111, and
OOPad.java is in the oopad111 folder. My unchanged AutoExec and
OOPad files follow, with my suggested changes in []. Can you
tell me if you see anything wrong?

AUTOEXEC.BAT (my PC is set):
@SET CLASSPATH=.;C:\PROGRA~1\PHOTOD~1.1\ADOBEC~1;C:\jdk1.2.2\
lib\tools.jar

[set classpath=%CLASSPATH%;C:\JCode\oopad111\OOPad.jar]

oopad.bat (set on his PC):
set classpath=.;d:\java\jre\lib\rt.jar\;d:\work\packages
java ishtai.oopad.OOPad

[set classpath=%CLASSPATH%;C:\jdk1.2.2\lib\tools.jar;C:\
JCode\oopad111\OOPad.jar]

cpath.bat (set on his PC):
set classpath=.;d:\java\jre\lib\rt.jar;d:\work\packages

[set classpath=%CLASSPATH%;C:\jdk1.2.2\lib\tools.jar;C:\
JCode\oopad111\OOPad.jar]

oopad.mf (set on his PC):
Main-Class: ishitai.oopad.OOPad

[This doesn't make sense; OOPad.html is in oopad111\docs\
ishitai\oopad\OOPad.html]

Originally, I figured on changing just the AutoExec file.
Then, after the response from the OOPad site I seen his oopad.bat
andcpath.bat and figured they would have to be modified. And
finally, Sun's jar tutorial says a Main-Class statement is
needed, and I found oopad.mf, which refers to OOPad.html two
folders deep into \oopad111. Talk about humbling...CAN ANYONE
OFFER ANY INSIGHT AS TO WHAT I'M DOING WRONG, OR WHAT ELSE I
NEED TO DO????

Any help is greatly appreciated!

• How about this... Short version October 24, 2000 at 8:32 PM (2)
  • ClassPath Jegannathan.S December 16, 2000 at 10:49 AM (1)
    • ClassPath Jegannathan.S December 16, 2000 at 10:52 AM (0)