Getting Started

CI Class Package is distributed in the industry standard ZIP format. Most operating system nowadays have built-in functionality to unpack ZIP archives. Most of the time, you can simply double-click on the ZIP file. However, if you have an older operating system, you can use an unzip utility. You can download the latest, free unzip utility from Info-ZIP. Which ever unzip utility you use, make sure it creates all of the directories in the ZIP archive.

Installing the Class Package

The classpath environmental variable have to be set to point to the directory where the class package resides. Refer to your Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE) documentations for more detail.

UNIX Example (Including Linux and Mac OS X)

export classpath=".:${HOME}/classes"

Windows Example

set classpath=.;c:\classes