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Available under the Open Software License, Version 2.1, the zio package is provided in two forms
These links were updated on July 22, 2005. You need to have a Java development system (JDK version 1.4 or later) installed first.
For the first method:
This is the recommended way to do it.
If you
search through the folders used by your Java development system you will
find at least one named ext. It may be easier to find these folders
if you know that ext is included in another folder named lib. Not
all lib folders contain an ext folder. The ones that do are
of interest here.
One gotcha to watch out for is that many computers have had a Java
virtual machine for web browser use installed before they had a Java
development system installed. You may have to find the ext in this
run-time system as well as any that came with the development system.
(On the computer I am using at the moment, I found three lib/ext
folder combinations to copy zio.jar into.)
For the second method:
Unzip these files into a directory (folder) named zio. To get the
package mechanism working correctly this zio must be placed within
a directory on the class path. Moreover, when you compile the zio
classes you must do so from that containing directory.
You may or may not be need to alter the CLASSPATH environment variable. If you need to, you may or may not be able to. Here is one work around that uses batch/shell files for compiling and executing Java programs.
With either method:
You can make use of the zio classes in your Java code by placing this statement at the beginning
import zio.*;
| context | Jul 22, 2005 | author |