How do I run *.jar rpogram

[harald kapper]

Scott Talbot schrieb:
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> 
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I have installed JRE 1.5_2 from sun site. Installation seems to have gone
>> well. I presume once JRE is installed, I should automatically be able to
>> run
>> any java program. I have downloaded Azureus bittorrent client in *.jar
>> form.
>> it doesn't run.
>>

hi
basically if you have a jar (which is a java archive) you run it like this:

java -jar <filename.jar>

actually you might yet need further classes to get this going, but it 
should give you a start.

hth
harald kapper / http://kapper.net