Hi,

I am trying to create an abstract class with their particular
implementations for the different decompress formats java supports (I
know it works. I have done it before), but I am getting some
uncomprehensible "cannot find symbol" error, even though I did compile
the implementation classes first and I am making them accessible
through the classpath

What does this error mean in this case?

How can I fix it?

lbrtchx

sh-3.1# javac -cp ./activation.jar:./tar.jar:. ReadInFls00Test.java
ReadInFls00Test.java:9: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class Unzip00
location: class ReadInFls00Test
 DKPrx[0] = new Unzip00(aZ[0]);
                ^
ReadInFls00Test.java:10: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class GUnzip00
location: class ReadInFls00Test
 DKPrx[1] = new GUnzip00(aZ[1]);
                ^
ReadInFls00Test.java:11: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class TARGUnzip00
location: class ReadInFls00Test
 DKPrx[2] = new TARGUnzip00(aZ[2]);
                ^
3 errors

sh-3.1# ls -l *UnZip00.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1814 Mar 20 06:05 GUnZip00.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2343 Mar 20 06:00 TARGUnZip00.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2577 Mar 20 06:00 UnZip00.class

sh-3.1# ls -l *.java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  232 Mar 20 06:09 AbsDkmprss00.java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1579 Mar 20 06:09 GUnZip00.java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  522 Mar 20 06:07 ReadInFls00Test.java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2333 Mar 20 06:09 TARGUnZip00.java
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2085 Mar 20 06:09 UnZip00.java