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Alvin Randolph wrote:
> 
> "Paul Nichols [TeamB]" <paul@none.com> wrote in message 
> news:46dd7a87$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> Alvin Randolph wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>  I created a jar file made up of several class files from package 
>>> Importlib so I can import them to another package. Everytime I made a 
>>> change to one of the Importlib files. I created the jar file with
>>>
>>> jar cvfm importest.jar manifest.txt importlib.*
>>>
>>> This appeared to work, but after about 3 or 4 recreations I sometime 
>>> got a JBuilder6 error message
>>>
>
>> I have noticed that on Windows, when you overwrite a file, it either 
>> (1) Does not overwrite or (2) becomes corrupted. So your problem may 
>> not be a JB problem, but a Windows problem.
>>

> I am using Windows XP with JBuilder6.
> 
> I've also noticed that when I tried to run a jar file (java -cp path -jar
> ... ) after having recreating 3 or 4 times, it didn't run. When I did a
> table listing of the jar file (jar tf ...), the the class containing the
> main method had changed from what I gave in the manifest file.
> 
Try deleting the current jar before you build a new one, or rename the 
current jar file. See if that doesn't solve your problems.

I have had this happen several times on Windows, not just with jar files 
either. Any compression algorithm seems to manifest this Windows bug.