X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?p=jalview.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=817206698ca9393100e589e08fc7fe1e240b8645;hp=74f4591939d6cfa46de666b5e1d5032a0b015c55;hb=7c1fb6e8bb8c267d38b15f0b80c9a2b5e53cde4b;hpb=4865a4110b7725acefd5b166f9b7c482ac01ce15

diff --git a/README b/README
index 74f4591..8172066 100755
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,13 +21,18 @@ For more help, read the file doc/building.html
 
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-To run application:
+To run application...
+[ NOTE: when using the -classpath option with the '*' wildcard, the argument must be quoted to avoid shell expansion of the wildcard,
+  ALSO, the wildcard MUST be as DIR/* and not DIR/*.jar etc or it will not be interpreted correctly ]
 
-java -classpath "JALVIEW_HOME/lib/*:JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview
+on Windows use:
+  java -classpath "JALVIEW_HOME/lib/*;JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview
+and on MacOS or Linux:
+  java -classpath "JALVIEW_HOME/lib/*:JALVIEW_HOME/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview
 
 Replace JALVIEW_HOME with the full path to Jalview Installation Directory. If building from source:
 
-java -classpath "JALVIEW_BUILD/dist/*" jalview.bin.Jalview
+  java -classpath "JALVIEW_BUILD/dist/*" jalview.bin.Jalview
 
 
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