Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to direct javac to search a jar file? Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:22:43 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <6e2eee77-2a64-496d-93e0-efe3b75416a5@googlegroups.com> <4330c3a0-fd57-4abf-a86f-53c1de41ebfb@googlegroups.com> <61b5e506-3b06-413a-bfef-35ccf56e9f54@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net PjnmOBM+xZpQRYhLcIOWbgDrYfZsM1KZ+B27KWdJXYI7wgiofL Cancel-Lock: sha1:5hkx4/0AcV3NumNTRCYNEFHJH+0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 In-Reply-To: <61b5e506-3b06-413a-bfef-35ccf56e9f54@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35192 On 03/08/16 20:02, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 9:31:02 AM UTC-4, Nigel Wade wrote: >> On 03/08/16 13:32, Eric Douglas wrote: >>> So you're saying Nigel is a liar and you can put jars in a classpath using a folder reference? >> >> He's not saying that at all. He's saying that there is a better solution than your solution of explicitly listing every jar on the classpath. >> If you'd taken the trouble to read the documentation instead of dismissing it as a wast of time, you'd know what it was. > > I did read the docs. and you still don't know how to specify the classpath correctly? > It said folders work, which you just said don't work, you seem to be confused. No one has said that folders don't work. Just that the way you said how to do it was wrong. > and I didn't see "additional characters" in there. If you were wrong, or at least unclear, just clarify The information I provided was correct, and explicit. > instead of trying to be insulting. If I wished to be insulting I wouldn't just try. However, there is nothing which either I or Lew has said which was insulting. We merely chastised you for your assertion that reading documentation is a waste of time, whilst at the same time providing incorrect information which, had you read the documentation, you should have know was incorrect.