Hi Mark
cheers for that, made a couple of changes and it worked for me (just probs with paths)
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set allclasspath=".;classes;c:\j2me_cldc\bin\common\api\classes;c:\j2me_cldc\bin\kjava\api\classes;c:\j2me_cldc\tools\palm\classes;"
set j2meclasspath="c:\j2me_cldc\bin\common\api\classes;c:\j2me_cldc\bin\kjava\api\classes"
md tmp
javac -d tmp -classpath %allclasspath% *.java
c:\j2me_cldc\bin\win32\preverify -d classes -classpath %j2meclasspath% tmp
cd classes
java -classpath %allclasspath% palm.database.MakePalmApp -v -bootclasspath %j2meclasspath% HelloPalm
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but I couldnt get the final .prc to compile unless I did it as above, it didnt seem to be able to find it, but changeing the name isnt a biggy
anyway thanks a lot, I now have everything working/compiling/building and running :0
cheers
tim