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Windows Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading, double-click install.exe


Notes

• If you do not have a Java virtual machine installed, be sure to download the package above which includes one.


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Mac OS Classic (8.1 or greater) Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading, double-click install


Notes

• Requires PowerPC and Mac OS 8.1 or later
• You may need to install Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) 2.2 or later before using this package.
• The installer is MacBinary encoded and should be automatically decoded after downloading.
  If it is not automatically decoded, you can decode it using StuffIt Expander 4.5 or later


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Mac OS X Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading, double-click install


Notes

• Requires Mac OS X 10.0 or later
• The compressed installer should be recognized by Stuffit Expander and should automatically be expanded after downloading. If it is not expanded, you can expand it manually using StuffIt Expander 6.0 or later.
• If you have any problems launching the installer once it has been expanded, make sure that the compressed installer was expanded using Stuffit Expander. If you continue to have problems, please contact technical support.


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AIX Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading open a shell and,  cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
• At the prompt type:  sh ./install.bin


Notes

• You need to install a Java 1.1.8 (or later) virtual machine. You can download one from Sun's Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.


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Solaris Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading open a shell and,  cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
• At the prompt type:  sh ./install.bin


Notes

• You need to install a Java 1.1.8 (or later) virtual machine. You can download one from Sun's Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.


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Linux Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading open a shell and,  cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
• At the prompt type:  sh ./install.bin


Notes

• You need to install a Java 1.1.8 (or later) virtual machine. You can download one from Sun's Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.


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HP-UX Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading open a shell and,  cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
• At the prompt type:  sh ./install.bin


Notes

• You need to install a Java 1.1.8 (or later) virtual machine. You can download one from Sun's Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.


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Generic Unix Instructions:

Instructions

• After downloading open a shell and,  cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
• At the prompt type:  sh ./install.bin


Notes

• You need to install a Java 1.1.8 (or later) virtual machine. You can download one from Sun's Java web site or contact your OS manufacturer.


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All Other Platforms Instructions:

Instructions (Unix or Unix-like operating systems)

• For Java 2, after downloading, type
    java -jar install.jar
• For Java 1.1, after downloading, type
    jre -cp install.jar install
• If that does not work, try
    java -classpath [path to]classes.zip:install.jar install
• If that does not work either, on sh-like shells, try
    cd [to directory where install.jar is located]
  CLASSPATH=install.jar
  export CLASSPATH
  java install
• Or for csh-like shells, try
    cd [to directory where install.jar is located]
  setenv CLASSPATH install.jar
  java install


Instructions (for other platforms)

• Be sure you have Java 1.1.8 or later installed. You can download Java from Sun's site
• In a console window, change to the directory where you downloaded install.jar to before running the installer
• Your operating system may invoke Java in a different way. To start the installer, add install.jar to your CLASSPATH, then start the main class of the installer named install


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