Ben Pike

yip, yip it worked.
After like the tenth attempt I remembered to add /BIN to the path (though of course I have no notion what a bin is).
Thanks for the help.

Hi,
I've had a couple classes in java at the local community college, and can deal with the fundamentals, sort of, but we have alway used one IDE or another and I'd like to make some programs work from a DOS window. I have Visual Age and Visual Cafe installed, and I tried putting a simple HelloWorld.java in a dir called java on the c: and then typing javac HelloWorld.java but I get 'bad file or command name'. So I suspect the sdk is not being found, though it must be on my machine, somewhere the IDE's find it okay.
Perhaps I need the right classpath set but I am pretty ignorant re OS.
Any 12 step programs for an IDE addict?
thanks in advance