[5651] in java-interest
Re: Basic hello world program -fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (df@cen.com)
Wed Feb 21 11:13:48 1996
From: df@cen.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 09:31:59 EST
To: Erik Sanchez <sancheze@rintintin.colorado.edu>
Cc: java-interest-digest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <312A7A53.740B@rintintin.colorado.edu>
Reply-To: dfout@cen.com
>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Sanchez <sancheze@rintintin.colorado.edu> writes:
Erik> < I recently bought the book "Teach yourself Java in 21 days", and
Erik> am < experiencing a problem immediately at the beginning of the
Erik> book. The basic < "Hello World" program compiles fine, but when I
Erik> try to execute it with < "java HelloWorld", I get an error that says
Erik> "can't find class/HelloWorld < class". What gives?
Erik> Charles, I just bought the same book today and after working through
Erik> the first "day," I thought about your question. First of all, put
Erik> the HelloWorld in quotes. Like this: java "HelloWorld" Since the
Erik> class name is more than 8 characters some dos apps have a hard time
Erik> with it. Secondly, don't include the .class extension or else
Erik> you'll get the same error message. One more thing, I can't get the
Erik> HelloWorldApplet to work (mine or the supplied code). It compiles
Erik> but won't display on netscape or the appletviewer. I can however get
Erik> the second day app to work etc.. go figure?
Erik> I hope this is timely enough to help a fellow java novice. Also,
Erik> this is my first "reply" so if I'm doing something wrong someone
Erik> PLEASE tell me.
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Blush. I did not have a </applet> tag after the <applet>. I added it and
now everything works great. I hope this can help some Java newbies. It
seemes like an easy mistake.
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