Another CLASSPATH problem

[Pat Barrett]

Hello,
I've been cruising along nicely until I tried creating my first package. I'm working out of chapter 5 in Thinking in Java and I'm having the following problem.
First, the preliminaries... I'm working on Windows 95 using JDK 1.3. My CLASSPATH is:
SET CLASSPATH=.;C:\jdk1.3\bin;C:\javaprog;C:\javaprog\javaranchcommon.zip;
In my javaprog directory I have the following file:

import mypackage.* ;
public class PackTest
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
         new MyClass() ;
    }
}

In the c:\javaprog\mypackage folder I have the following file

package mypackage ;
public class MyClass
{
    public MyClass()
    {
        System.out.println("I'm in the package") ;
    }
}

MyClass.java compiles fine, but I get the following error when I compile PackTest.java:
[Windows 95] C:\javaprog>javac PackTest.java
PackTest.java:6: cannot access MyClass
bad class file: .\MyClass.class
class file contains wrong class: mypackage.MyClass
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpa
th.
new MyClass() ;
^
1 error
I have things setup the same way on a Win 2K system and it works fine, but I'm at a loss as to why it doesn't work on my home Win 95 system.
I have a suspicion that the solution to this is staring me in the face, but I'm not seeing it. I would appreciate any insight anyone here could offer.
Thanks in advance,
Pat B.

[Andy Ceponis]

Well im no expert on 95 or anything, since all i use is 2k. But i think this may have something to do with your prob.
SET CLASSPATH=.;C:\jdk1.3\bin;C:\javaprog;C:\javaprog\javaranchcommon.zip;
Ok, so thats your path. But later on you say that your package is in c:\javaprog\mypackage.
Now im not sure on this, but shouldnt you include the /mypackage directory in your classpath?

[Pat Barrett]

Thanks for the reply Andy,
Your answer wasn't the right one, but it got me to realize what the problem actually was. Before I got to the part in the TIJ book about saving all your package files in their own directory I had originally saved and compiled myClass in the javaprog directory. Later, I added the mypackage directory and rather than moving the file I copied it, leaving a different version of myClass in the javaprog directory. Since the CLASSPATH just provides a starting point for the compiler to look for the necessary packages it was hitting my original myClass, which was the cause of the error.
I hate to admit such a mindless error, but hopefully this will help someone else down the road.
Thanks again,
Pat B.