OK Ivan I will attempt that after I get my brand spanking new Cygwin in. I thought I could use UNIX notation in Cygwin but I see I cannot. oops.
George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > This command line in the Bash shell: > > > > java -cp /files/jini1_2/lib/jini-ext.jar:/files/jini1_2/lib/jini-examples.jar > > com.sun.jini.example.launcher.StartService > > > > becomes > > > > java -cp /files/jini1_2/lib/jini-ext.jar:/files/jini1_2/lib/jini-examples.jar > > com/sun/jini/example/launcher/StartService > > > > and so of course error is > > > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError : com/sun/jini/example/launcher/StartService > > Exception in thread "main" > > > > What is wrong wiith Cygwin's usage of the java command console? How do > > I convince Cygwin that I mean > > > > com.sun.jini.example.launcher.StartService > > > > and not > > > > com/sun/jini/example/launcher/StartService? > > > > Thanks. > > No, that's not it. Java replaces dots by slashes internally, so the above > is a perfectly valid error message -- it really cannot find the class. > > What's wrong is that you supply the classpath as a POSIX path, and java, > not being a Cygwin application, doesn't understand this path. You need to > convert the path to a Win32 path using cygpath. For automatic conversion, > search the archives for "java wrapper scripts". > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/