javac not recognized as an internal or external command

[kotoko]

I am unable to runthe javac command
I get a "javac not recognized as an internal or external command"
I searched and tried everything I found but nothing works.
What I have so far:
eclipse runs perfectly (but I really need to run javac for school purposes)

my system variables:
JAVA_HOME -> C:\Programas\Java\jdk1.6.0
CLASSPATH -> .;%JAVA_HOME%
Path -------> %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\Sy stem32\Wbem;C:\Programas\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Programas\MATLAB7\bin\win32; %PATH%; %JAVA_HOME%\\bin

if I hava the file.java inside the directory where javac is it works perfectly

Pleeease help!


I'm trying to compile at D:\dei\workspace\HelloWorld\src

[JavaBean]

It looks like you have one extra \ in "%JAVA_HOME%\\bin"

[kotoko]

tried and still not working.

btw - it was like that in the tutorial I followed (it was like that twice)

[hiranya]

type the following in the terminal (or command prompt) and see whether you get any output. If you get an error message then your environment variables haven't being setup properly.

Code:

java -version

Regards,
Hiranya

[kotoko]

Code:

java -version

returns the version of java properly.

Does this mean anything about my system variables and\or what is my problem?

[JavaBean]

Hmm. Check if you have javac in the JDK's bin directory. It looks like you have a java.exe there but no javac.exe.

[kotoko]

I found the problem I had a space between ; and the start of the path in the system variable . . .

I now newbie error but thanks a lot for your help!