posted 19 years ago
Path: an environment variable which denotes the system path i.e. how you tell your OS where to find executables it can run.
Classpath: an environment variable which denotes a path desribing where compiled classes can be found. This is used by the JVM's classloaders to load classes and resources.
The command is "set". Both "path" and "classpath" are arguments for the set command, and are labels for these environment variables.