On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:27:50 +0100, 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). Hi. The only thing I can suggest if Julian's idea doesn't work is that you could un-install Java and then reinstall it, which might convince windows to associate .jar files with Java. We have seen problems with Java and XP in the past but we haven't had time to track down the cause. Kim.
