WOW and Double WOW.   I never dreamed my question would create such a
thread.  I am honored by all your reponses.  I will take to heart your
many suggestions and comments.  I don't know why my one computer seemed
to have trouble installing Java.  Nothing...absolutely nothing... was
in the bin directory and there were no "hidding" settings active for
the window.

SO I tried it on another and there it was.  Go figure.......

Now perhaps someone can tell me a better book to use.  The first
example in this current book ( see the title at the start of this
thread) is coded like this:

/*
Comments omitted
*/
class Example {
// Another comment
public static void main (string args[ ] )  {
 System.out.println("This is a simple Java Program.");
 }
}

And this is the error I get when I run  javac example.java:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
example/class

I don't want to have to spend any time debugging.  It just aught to
work when you are learning.  So what is a better book that is perhaps
more up-to-date.  My has a copyright of 2002.  IT is sort of
discouraging when even the book examples don't work.  In some places in
the example it was hard to tell if a space existed between some things
like  "main(string"   or    "main  (string"  but I got the error
regardless.

Thanks again to all
George Sullivan