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@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ A working example may be found in
 To compile and run it using Java 1.6 or higher:
 
 <pre>
-	javac examples/jse/ScriptEngineSample.java
+	javac -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar examples/jse/ScriptEngineSample.java
 	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;examples/jse&quot; ScriptEngineSample
 </pre>