Absolute classpaths

[richard rehl]

Question: if I have a class defined in
mycomputername:/~/Documents/Java/myProject/source/Another.class
and I want to invoke it using an absolute classpath, what should my classpath include? I've tried

java -classpath /Documents/Java/myProject Another

and

java -classpath /Documents/Java/myProject/source Another

and

java -classpath /~/Documents/Java/myProject Another

as well as

java -classpath /~/Documents/Java/myProject/source Another

and keep getting NoClassDefFoundErrors. I would have thought that one of these paths would have worked.

[narendra bhattacharya]

you are using windows or linux..

[richard rehl]

Actually, OSX.

[Siva Masilamani]

See my reponse in your other post

[narendra bhattacharya]

in linux based os... / is the root directory but on OSX i don't know...
in windows we have to with write with full path like c:/pro....

[richard rehl]

narendra bhattacharya wrote:in linux based os... / is the root directory but on OSX i don't know...
in windows we have to with write with full path like c:/pro....

Thanks, figured it out, one thing I hadn't tried - has to start with the tilde "~" character instead of the forward slash, so:
java -cp ~/Documents/Java/myProject/classes MyClass
Is this different than Unix or Linux convention?