From owner-freebsd-java Sat Jun 5 14: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.jps.net (smtp6.jps.net [209.63.224.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069FC14F37 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vudon@jps.net) Received: from don (209-239-194-192.oak.jps.net [209.239.194.192]) by smtp6.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA23846 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000a01beaf53$dd019f50$c0c2efd1@don> From: "Don Vu" To: Subject: Syntax error Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:03:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEAF5C.3DF94170" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEAF5C.3DF94170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I downloaded the jdk1.1.7_ELF.V99-3-25.tar.gz and uncompressed it. After adding the jdk1.1.7 directory to my path, I issued the following = commands independently: java filename javac filename jre filename All the commands gave me the following error message: Syntax error: "(" unexpected What does this mean? Thank you for any help you can provide. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01BEAF5C.3DF94170 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I downloaded the=20 jdk1.1.7_ELF.V99-3-25.tar.gz and uncompressed it.

After adding the jdk1.1.7 directory to my path, = I issued=20 the following commands independently:

java filename

javac filename

jre filename

All the commands gave me the following error=20 message:

Syntax error: "("=20 unexpected

What does this mean?

Thank you for any help you can = provide.

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