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To: "Don Vu" <vudon@jps.net>
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Subject: Re: Syntax error
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> 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?

What version of FreeBSD are you running?


Nate


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