17 Feb
2002
17 Feb
'02
00:59
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:47:02 -0500 "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Saturday 16 February 2002 07:09 pm Jon Doe wrote:
How do I execute a jar file? I keep getting -jar: illegal argument when I try to run jar files.
What do you get from 'java -version', 'which java', and 'whereis java'?
This worked for me: hattons@baldur:/usr/lib/java/demo/jfc/SwingSet2> java -jar SwingSet2.jar &
which java: /usr/lib/java/bin/java java -version: java version "1.1.8 whereis java: java: /usr/lib/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz I tried the above that you mention and still get the same error.