On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Godmar Back wrote: > Please see http://faq.javaranch.com/java/HowToSetTheClasspath On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: > When dealing with JAR files, each entry in CLASSPATH should be the > full path to the JAR file, e.g., > > export CLASSPATH=/home/eric/lucene/lucene-core-2.3.0.jar:/home/eric/ > lucence/lucene-demos-2.3.0.jar > > You use a plain directory as a CLASSPATH component only if you intend > to use .class files that has not been packaged up in a JAR. Thank you for the prompt replies. Yes, my CLASSPATH needed to be more specific; it needed to specify the .jar files explicitly. I can now run the demo. (Arg! Classpaths!) -- ELM