unable to run ant after unzipping binary distrbtn

Dear Brothers and sisters,I am new to ant.

i have unzipped the ant into D:\Room_Mates\riyaz\Installd\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5.

set the ANT_HOME = D:\Room_Mates\riyaz\Installd\ant;
set the JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09;
set the path = %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%HSQLDB_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;
%ANT_HOME%\apache-ant-1.6.5\lib\ant-launcher;

when i run 'ant' command in the cmd prompt under any directory i see the error as - 'ant' nor recogonized as internal or external command.Kindly provide me the sollution.
[ October 10, 2006: Message edited by: riyaz udeen ]

You missed "apache-ant-1.6.5" in ANT_HOME. Also remove the semi-colon from the end of ant home and java home

where you installed it =
D:\Room_Mates\riyaz\Installd\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5.

you set the ANT_HOME =
D:\Room_Mates\riyaz\Installd\ant;
[ October 10, 2006: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]

fine thanks, i recogonized it after posting. thank you.

hi..i too have the same problem..unable to run Ant after unzipping the files
my environment variables are
ANT_HOME = C:\Documents and Settings\srini\Desktop\Vandana\apache-ant-1.6.0
Classpath = %ANT_HOME%\lib\ant-launcher;%ANT_HOME%\bin
javahome is set correctly..to javahome
i am on windows xp...in the apache site..it was written that if we had a problem running ant in xp..then try to download a latest nightfortly build ...its written like this...i didnt understand..
pls help me out ....

vandu,

Next time start your own post.

ant installation instructions:

set path,

Having problems?
prefereably UNset classpath.
[ October 14, 2006: Message edited by: Carol Enderlin ]