Sounds like your JAVA_HOME environment variable is a bit screwy - try this from the same place:
>java -jar lib\opennlp-tools-*.jar But given OpenNLP is primarily a Java API, I think you may struggle trying to use it purely as a command line tool. Steve. -- Steve Eynon ------------------------------- "If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving!" On 11 June 2011 21:19, Amal Elmah <amalalthougha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to use Opennlp tools so I downloaded the > apache-opennlp-1.5.1-incubating-bin.zip from the following page > http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp/download.cgi > then I unzip this folder > I followed the instructions in the documentation > http://incubator.apache.org/opennlp/documentation/manual/opennlp.html to try > to make a tocknizer > so I wrote the following in the command line > > C:\Pipe\apache-opennlp-1.5.1-incubating-bin\apache-opennlp-1.5.1-incubating> > bin\opennlp.bat SimpleTokenizer > > bu I have got the following error! what does this error mean????? > > \Java\jdk1.6.0_25\bin\bin\java was unexpected at this time. > > thanks, > Amal