--- read.me.first.orig Mon Feb 11 12:08:27 2002 +++ read.me.first Mon Feb 11 12:17:51 2002 @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ To start, point your Web browser at the file: - NetRexx\browse\netrexx.html + /usr/local/share/doc/NetRexx/netrexx.html + +(assuming your LOCALBASE=/usr/local). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -27,35 +29,24 @@ 2. Make the translator visible to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM): - -- If you are running Java 1.2 or later, copy the file - NetRexx\lib\NetRexxC.jar to the jre\lib\ext directory in the - Java installation tree. The JVM will automatically find it - there and make it available. - - -- If you are using an earlier Java version (1.1.2 through 1.1.8) - instead add the full path and filename of the NetRexx\lib\NetRexxC.jar - to the CLASSPATH environment variable for your operating system. + -- add the full path and filename of the + /usr/local/share/java/classes/NetRexxC.jar to the CLASSPATH + environment variable for your operating system. Note: if you have a NetRexxC.zip in your CLASSPATH from an earlier version of Rexx, remove it (NetRexxC.jar replaces NetRexxC.zip). - 3. Copy all the files in the NetRexx\bin directory to a directory in - your PATH (perhaps the \bin directory in the Java installation - tree). This is not essential, but makes shorthand scripts and a - test case available. - - 4. If you are running Java 1.2 or later, make the file \lib\tools.jar + 3. If you are running Java 1.2 or later, make the file /lib/tools.jar (which contains the javac compiler) in the Java tree visible to the JVM. You can do this either by adding its path and filename to - the CLASSPATH environment variable, or by moving it to the - jre\lib\ext directory in the Java tree. + the CLASSPATH environment variable. - 5. Test the installation by making the executables directory the - current directory and issuing the following two commands exactly - as written: + 4. Test the installation by making the examples directory the + current directory (/usr/local/share/examples/NetRexx) and issuing + the following two commands exactly as written: - java COM.ibm.netrexx.process.NetRexxC hello - java hello + $ java COM.ibm.netrexx.process.NetRexxC hello + $ java hello The first of these should translate the test program and then invoke the javac compiler to generate the class file (hello.class) @@ -64,9 +55,10 @@ If you have any problems or errors in the above process, please read the detailed instructions and problem-solving tips in the NetRexx User's -guide. You can find it in this package at NetRexx\browse\nrusers.html -(for browsing) and at NetRexx\browse\nrusers.pdf for viewing and -printing with Acrobat Reader. +guide. You can find it in this package at +/usr/local/share/docs/NetRexx/nrusers.html (for browsing) and at +/usr/local/share/docs/NetRexx/nrusers.pdf for viewing and printing with +Acrobat Reader. ------------------------------------------------------------------------