Re: I finally installed eXist....but....

Hi Ted,

What version of eXist do you want to run first of all? Because depending 
on that version it may well be, that you need an other version of Java 
in order to run it.

Regards

Patrick

Am 04.12.2023 um 17:53 schrieb Ted Hickox:
> Someone told me in this forum to run the bin\startup from the command 
> line.  Soi I did.  I received the following message.  The message says 
> cannot run program.c:ProgramFiles\Java\jdk-11\bin\javaw.exe in 
> directory c:Users\TedHickox\Documents\eXist create process error = 206 
> The filename or extension is too long.  The stackflow article that 
> someone in this group sent to me discusses Java classes and Java 
> objects.  I barely comprehend either term.  I've never programmed in 
> Java even though I have programmed in Javascript for years.  So I had 
> a tough time reading the stackflow article.  So I didn't obtain very 
> much useful information from the stackflow article.
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 10:38 AM Jean-Paul Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     >I tried to run bin\startup as an administrator and it didn't work
>
>     Unfortunately these kinds of comments don't let anyone help you.
>     To get correct help you need to provide exactly the steps to
>     reproduce your installation and problems in executing programs,
>     and then the exact error messages you receive.
>
>     Lots of people run eXist on Windows (I don't, but my colleagues do).
>
>     As it goes, most eXist help is now found on the eXist developer's
>     Slack community,
>     https://join.slack.com/t/exist-db/shared_invite/zt-89ukckoj-zbbC_V2QDIR5nGMokG9TQA
>     . You are likely to find more responsiveness there than this
>     mailing list.
>
>     JPR
>

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