Can't execute a main class with jar file loaded on command line

Hello Guys,
I try to use the following command to execute a main metod from msword class.
java -cp f60all.jar:jacob.jar msword
and i receive:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: msword
If i extract the 2 jar files then i can execute the main metod:
java msword
Can anyone explainme whet is happening ?
Thanks,
/Marian

Hi!
You need to include the directory where your class is in your classpath... you can use for this the "."
So, you should write something like
java -cp .;f60all.jar;jacob.jar msword
and this supposing that "f60all.jar", "jacob.jar" and "msword.class" are all in the same directory from which you are trying to run the program... in other case write the full paths for the files...
Bye!

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