You must use the 8.3 filenames since java doesn't understand the longer
windows filenames. Open a DOS command prompt and do a dir /w on each
directory with a name longer than 8 characters or more than one '.' to see
the 8.3 filename. It'll be listed on the left with the long name on the
right.
--David Smith
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 09:34 am, you wrote:
> Just installed tomcat 3.2.3 on my Win95 PC. I set up JAVA_HOME, set path
> to JAVA_HOME\bin, and set TOMCAT_HOME to c:\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3.
> When I run startup.bat here is what I get…
>
> …
> Unable to set CLASSPATH dynamically.
> Note: To set the CLASSPATH dynamically on Win9x systems
> Only DOS 8.3 names may be used in TOMCAT_HOME!
> Setting your CLASSPAH statically.
>
> Using CLASSPATH: C:\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\classes……..
>
> Starting Tomcat in a new window
> Bad command or file name
> …..
>
> Any idea’s ?
>
> Brian
