On Windows platforms, java -help needs to specify the classpath delimiter as ;
It currently specifies the classpath delimiter as :

customer email follows:

> From ###@###.### Thu Jun 20 07:19:29 1996
> From: "Michael L. Taylor" <###@###.###>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: Casey Cameron <Casey.Cameron@Eng>
> Subject: Re: java bug
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> This is a command line
> problem of the Java interpreter "java". Using the WinNT32 ver-
> sion (1.01 and 1.02), java entered without parameters to produce
> the help options, says that the -classpath option is followed
> by a list of <directories separated by colons>. What was meant
> was a SEMI-colon. I found this out because my CLASSES environ-
> ment variable was not set appropriately and the interpreter
> could not find the classes.zip or the class I was trying to in-
> terpret in the current directory. It's a minor thing, but it
> held me up for a long time when I could not enter the class path
> correctly.
>
> -- Michael
>
> > From ###@###.### Wed Jun 19 12:52:21 1996
> > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:51:17 -0700
> > From: "Michael L. Taylor" <###@###.###>
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: java@java
> > Subject: java bug
> > X-URL:
> http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/1.0.2/installation-win32-x86.html#Troubles
> hooting
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > java -classpath path;path
> >
> > not
> >
> > java -classpath path:path
> >
> > as the directions say in java -help
> >
> > separated by a SEMI-colon, not colon.
> >
> > -- Michael
>