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Re: Is CLASSPATH necessary for Jigsaw operation?

From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:38:18 +0100 (MET)
To: PGG <pgg7@yahoo.com>
cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002231037190.22788-100000@tarantula.inria.fr> 
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, PGG wrote:

> Is it necessary to set the CLASSPATH environment
> variable to operate Jigsaw 2.0.4? I was able to
> install and launch Jigsaw on Win98 using Install.bat
> and Jigsaw.bat without any CLASSPATH; I haven't
> configured Jigsaw yet, though. I'm using the newest
> release of JDK (SDK 2, JDK 1.2.0 I believe).

Well, the scripts are setting the CLASSPATH before invoking the java VM.
the CLASSPATH is the only way for the java VM to find the classes it will
use.

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