WARNING: These directions were last used extensively in Fall 1997. There may be bugs. Please report bugs to fleck@cs.hmc.edu and mike@cs.hmc.edu.

A few people have attempted to put Java on their PC's. The following is a rough outline of the steps necessary to install java, to move the HMCSupport library to a PC, and to create a working CLASSPATH once you have installed the jdk 1.1.

• Install JDK 1.1 (Jave Development Kit, version 1.1). The latest version is actually JDK 1.2. If you try 1.2, do tell us whether it works ok with HMCSupport and the course notes.
• Get the ACME and HMCSupport packages, either the uncompressed tar file or the gzipped tar file or the zip archive. This contains two directories of files Acme and HMC, which you should store on your PC in the following locations:
  c:[wherever you installed the JDK]\lib\Acme
  and
  c:[wherever you installed the JDK]\lib\HMC
  It is important to recognize that the two directories be placed in the \lib\ directory under where ever the JDK was installed.
  Note, that if you use ws-ftp then entire directories can be ftp'ed otherwise, individual files would need to be ftp'ed. Look at "The Whole Internet" for a discussion of ways to ftp entire directories.
• Add the line
  SET CLASSPATH=.;c:[wherever you installed the JDK]\lib\
  to the autoexec.bat file.
• Add
  ;c:[wherever you installed the JDK]\bin\
  to the end of the SET PATH= line in the autoexec.bat file.
• Note: the classes.zip stays "ziped". It is part of the jdk.
• Reboot

Note: you can send mail to: pc-system-l@hmc.edu, the general pc mail list at HMC, for any pc related questions and issues.