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JIBS Download and Installation

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Java 6

This is the recommended version of the program.

Windows  
Window exe file which  runs  JIBS using your installed Java 6.
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by double clicking on it.
The program is identical to the jar file version below, just with a Windows wrapper.
Windows wrapper provided by Launch4J.

Other  
Java jar file which runs JIBS using your installed Java. 
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by double clicking on it.
Works on Windows and any other operationing system which runs Java 6.
The program is identical to the exe version above, just without the Windows wrapper.

This is a Java program so you need Java 6. Java can be downloaded from java.sun.com.

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Java 4 and 5

This version is for older operating systems without Java 6 support.

Legacy  
Java jar file which runs JIBS using your installed Java. 
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by double clicking on it.
Works on Windows and any other operationing system which runs Java 6.

Memory Issue:

Java 4 and 5 by default give a program very little memory. 
This can slow JIBS down, particularly with the thumbnail view.
You can eliminate this problem by starting JIBS with the following command line:
java -Xms200M -Xmx1000M -jar JIBS.jar

For ease of use, this can be added to a Windows shortcut, or put in a batch file or command script.

Before Java 6, the default heap size was initially 2 megabytes with a maximum of 64 megabytes . Not much really. The command above raise the initial to 500 megabytes and the maximum to 1 gigabyte.  Java 6 does memory allocation based on how much memory is actually on the machine, so this is often much less of a problem with Java 6.

Options for starting Jibs with custom properties files

1. Default operation.
   All properties are kept in Java's default location for you operating system. For Windows, this is in the Windows registry.
2. Look in same directory as Jibs.
   Jibs will now look in the directory where jibs.jar is for: jibs.props
   If that file is found, Jibs will read its properties from that file not from the system. The file can be created as an empty file and Jibs will just start using it.
3. Specify where to get properties from.
   You specify what property file Jibs will use with
   -props D:\dev\workspaces\JIBS\bin\jibs.props
   If the properties file does not exist, Jibs will try to create it.
4. Thumbdrive option.
   This tells Jibs to use specific sub-directories from where it starts. This is meant to enable loading jibs.jar with some sub-directories onto a thumbdrive and running jibs from the thumbdrive.
   -thumbdrive
   Jibs will look for and try to create the following sub-diretories of the directory where jibs.jar is located:
   pictures
park
delete
   Thumbdrive takes precedence over any directories set in the property files.

This is a Java program so you need Java 4, 5, or 6. Java can be downloaded from java.sun.com.