Question

I have a number of student with java programming assigment written using (most probabaly) Mac OS.

The trouble here is I can’t compile their code (in Windows) to see the executable output. I have open the file and there is nothing different in it (except it is slightly bigger than the same file written in Windows).

Can anyone tell me what is the problem here? Is the because the meta-data at the background or something else?

Update ~ here is the error message that were produced

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Cheers..

Answer 1

You’ve probably got files in the directory labelled ._classFile.java, which are being interpreted by javac. They contain the resource fork information for the file when stored on a non Mac OS system. The quick solution is to delete these files before attempting to compile the code in the directory.