On 10/12/2020 06.08, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Received a .jar file from USPS, regarding tracking info. It's not critical, but Google says that you can read it in the terminal with java -jarfile.jar. That didn't work here.
Impossible. A .jar file is a program, not a "file with tracking info" for reading. No reliable company in the world would send you a program in the email.
doug@linux1:~/Downloads> java -tracking.info.jar Unrecognized option: -tracking.info.jar Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
Every once in a while someone lays a jarfile on me, and I've never been able to open one. Any suggestions?
You are fortunate that they failed to run, and I will not try to explain to you how to run them. You are too gullible. Who knows what that program would have done to your computer. Possibly encrypted all files, then demand a ransom for you to pay in bitcoins. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)