Using Java 1.5 in olympus ------------------------- 1. In your .profile file, there should be a PATH variable that has several paths separated by semicolons. Add to the front of this list the following: /local/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/ (Note: I can't remember if you need the last forward slash or not. Try it both ways.) 2. Log out and then log back on. 3. Now when you do javac and java, it should use version 1.5. Alternatively, every time you compile a program Prog.java, you could do: >/local/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javac Prog.java and then to run it do: >/local/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java Prog