Java - Importing from a Jar file hav touble with set CLASSPATH

[minifish]

Hello experts,

I'm try to import java file in unix.
Under bash, I tried
export CLASSPATH=/blah/blah/some.jar:/blah/some2.jar
The CLASSPATH variable was initially undefined.

and when I try to compile my java program, I get error message

error: error reading /blah/blah/some.jar; error in opening zip file

Any suggestions? or what I mit be doing wrong?

Thank you

-minifish

[JosAH]

What happens when you do this:

jar -tvf /blah/blah/some.jar
 

If all is fine the entire contents of the jar will be listed.

kind regards,

Jos

[minifish]

I didn't get any error for extracting jar file.

[JosAH]

I didn't get any error for extracting jar file.

Strange; what was the exact error message?

kind regards,

Jos

[minifish]

I'm not sure where I messed up. but after I restart and reset all my environment variables I got the CLASSPATH method to work.
Thank you very much