Hi, It's a long shot, but I have a number of JDKs on my (NT) laptop and the biggest problem I've found wrt commandline stuff is the 'secret' java.exe that each installer dumps in winnt/system32 Do a find files and make sure you haven't got an older java.exe somewhere where it shouldn't be. Bye, Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Diane Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 April 2001 00:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: java command options instead of ant ... : Green back > > > Try changing the line at the top of the ant.bat file to @echo > on and see > how things look, especially the java command-line that runs Ant. > > P.S. I've never run 'ant' from a DOS window before, but I > just tried it on > my NT (all I set was ANT_HOME, no classpath) and it ran fine. > > Diane > > --- Viraj Purang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I keep getting this text when I run ant from the command prompt > > after > > setting the classpath and installing ANT on my PC. > > The text resembles the output when you run just java at the command > > prompt > > which leads me to believe that the .bat file for ant contains java > > statements, which are not complete. > > The ant however comes up fine when I run it from inside the perl > > file > > which is attached in the ant ditribution. > > Can someone help me out on this ? > > Regards, > > Viraj Purang > > > > > > > > > > C:\>ant > > Usage: java [-options] class [args...] > > (to execute a class) > > or java -jar [-options] jarfile [args...] > > (to execute a jar file) > > > > where options include: > > -cp -classpath <directories and zip/jar files separated by ;> > > set search path for application classes and resources > > -D<name>=<value> > > set a system property > > -verbose[:class|gc|jni] > > enable verbose output > > -version print product version > > -? -help print this help message > > -X print help on non-standard options > > > ===== > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >
