Beginner's Guide: Getting Started

First, begin by getting the gzipped tar ball containing all the source code you will need to begin. Do not worry: virtually all popular decompression programs can expand the contents of this file (tar, WinZip, etc.).
From this point on, we will assume that you have extracted the files to the directory "/tutorial". In POSIX-compliant systems, the command sequence is

% cd /
% tar xvfz ~/tutorial.tar.gz

Using WinZip, simply extract the files to a folder called "tutorial" off of your hard drive.

In all systems, Java needs to know where all the files are located. You can tell it this by setting the CLASSPATH environment variable as follows:

% setenv CLASSPATH .:/tutorial

Running the PB3A System Programs
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Kevin R Dixon
Last modified: Fri May 19 12:43:45 EDT 2000