what is java.io.IOException: invalid header field?

Question

When i try to run the following command :

jar cvfm myjar.jar manifest.txt *.class

I get the following exceptions :

java.io.         


        

Answer 1

A stupid mistake to do (which I did) was to do jar cvfm manifest.txt myjar.jar *.class instead of jar cvfm myjar.jar manifest.txt *.class