Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: my java is broken ! Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 15:58:58 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <15508526.29.1336086347980.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjj16> <12032768.867.1336176279160.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbyy9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 22:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zgW2MA4sFrKxp4jMohs6RQ"; logging-data="17320"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rshlWJ8ZVwFdSJETKr8Dt7f03NS5WVVA=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:VWjJ5302YToKV1dhmrc/I7v3cZ8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14307 On 5/5/2012 3:30 PM, bilsch wrote: > On 05/04/2012 05:04 PM, Lew wrote: >> Both the compiler ("javac") and the runtime ("java") respect classpaths, >>... > Would you care to elaborate on this or give me a link where I can read > about it? ... > > I don't have the FM There's an old FAQ floating about the web titled "How to Ask Smart Questions" or something like that. It also has some standard answers, like STFW or "search the f'ing web." It's a standard answer because it works. I typed "javac" into Google and the first thing it should me was an Oracle page on how to use javac. It was and old 1.4 page, so I searched for "javac 6" and got the most recent page. P.S. Found it: