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Documentation Installation Instructions for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.4.2

You should have approximately 165 MB of free disk space before installating the documentation.

Install the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.4.2 documentation by following these steps:

Where to unbundle your documentation

You can install the documentation inside your Java 2 SDK directory or in any other location you prefer.

Unbundling the Java 2 SDK documentation creates a docs directory (folder) in the current directory, putting all the documentation inside that directory as shown here.

docs ___________________|_____________________ | | | | | | index.html guide api tooldocs relnotes images | | | | |

Unbundle the documentation using the a zip-compatible utility such as winzip, unzip, gunzip, or pkunzip. Your utility must support long file names.

• To install the documentation bundle using the zip utility:
  

  C:> unzip j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip

  You can also install the .zip file using the Java 2 SDK's jar utility:
  

  C:> jar xvf j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip
  

  Note: If you are using another tool that doesn't preserve path names by default, be sure to specify that path names be preserved. For example, if you are using pkunzip, specify -d:

  C:> pkunzip -d j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip
  

Unzipping the documentation bundle creates a docs/ directory containing your Java 2 Platform documentation.

Open the docs/index.html page in a browser. This is the front page and table of contents of the Java 2 SDK documentation.