Posted by Erica L. Arnold on July 09, 1999 at 18:10:24:
I am running NT Workstation 4.0 w/ SP 5. I originally installed the JRE and Acceptor software exactly as described in the pdf file given with the d/l's. Since JRE seemed to be the kind of program I might need later, I went ahead and let NT put it in the default directory for executables. On my computer, that is in the "Program Files" directory. I set my path as directed, and checked it. All the Java stuff went to "C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\jre\1.1"
When I tried to run Submit.bat, I got a message saying something like "Couldn't find JRE" (If I just double clicked Submit.bat my screen flashed a split second prompt window and then did nothing. I had to open a prompt window by hand, then type submit.bat in the proper directory to read the error message)
Thankfully, I bribed (with a free lunch) a friend who is better with this stuff than I am. He checked what I had done, and found the problem...
Submit.bat calls up a DOS prompt window. While the DOS prompt window does not seem to mind file names > 8 characters long (I could be wrong here), IT DOES NOT LIKE SPACES!
He changed my path variable (along with the jre command on line 3 of Submit.bat) to be "c:\Progra~1\JavaSoft\jre\1.1\bin" instead of the original path with Program Files typed out. And now it works! Yay!
Hussein says that the default methods worked fine for him on NT4, so it may have something to do with the service pack you're using. I don't know. I miss regular old DOS
I hope this helps some people.