Stuart, I have an XP machine with WinZip, and don't have that problem.
Have you checked that the file doesn't have a hidden extension? It may be that IE or Netscape have added a ".tar" to the end of the file on download. If you switch on "show hidden file extensions" and then remove the .tar, it should work fine. Julian. "Rison, Stuart" wrote: > > Dear all, > > Having no joy installing Artemis 5 under Windows XP. > > The first problem is that I have WinZip on the machine, which automatically > (and somewhat justifiably) considers the .jar file to be an archive and > associates itself with it. The consequence of this is that double clicking > on artemis_v5.jar opens up WinZip which give me the option to uncompress the > jar! > > I have tried reassociating the artemis_v5.jar file with other applications, > i.e. java, javaw, and javap (more out of desperation than anything). At > least double clicking no longer opens WinZip, I get a DOS-type window where > a message of the style 'error can't find thread "main"' appears (not sure of > the exact message, as it flashes too fast). > > Any help and/or pointers much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Stuart. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Stuart C. G. Rison > Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases > Royal Veterinary College > Royal College Street > London, NW1 0TU > United Kingdom. > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 020 7468 5054 > Fax: 020 7468 5306 > > "That's bioinformatics... and we don't want to be doing bioinformatics, we > want to do real science.", Sydney Brenner, UCL Pfizer Lecture, 8 May 2001 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Julian Parkhill The Sanger Institute mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Tel: +44(0)1223 494975, Fax: +44(0)1223 494919 Hinxton http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Microbes Cambridge http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/parkhill CB10 1SA, UK
