Hi, I'm trying to run ant to build a class called converter. On the dos prompt I type: ant converter And i get this: 'and was unexpected at this time'. Does anyone know whats going on? Cheers, Jim

AND (or ANT, I guess you commited a typo) is not an internal command from COMMAND.COM, nor from CMD.exe (NT systems' command interpreter), neither a standard external command, such as FIND.exe or DEBUG.exe. That command is probably a batch file (AND.BAT or ANT.BAT) which is using an internal command with a wrong sintax. You're probably on a NT system (that message is a standard message from CMD.EXE, not from COMMAND.COM), right? Post the batch file and we shall tell you what is wrong on it. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

and what exactly do you expect and convertor to do on your prompt ?