Package confusion

We have been supplied with a bunch of example code files for an assignment. Each file has

Code :

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package FabricCuts

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at the top. I can't get any of the files to run if I have the package stuff at the top, but if I remove the line from each file they run fine.

What I've tried:
1. Creating a new directory FabricCuts and moving all files inside.

Here is the error I see with a bit of context.

Code :

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> ls
Garment.java          GarmentFile.java      GarmentFileTest.java  Piece.java            PieceTest1.java       TextFile.java         TextFileTest.java
> javac PieceTest1.java Piece.java 
> java PieceTest1
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: PieceTest1 (wrong name: FabricCuts/PieceTest1)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:56)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
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As I said everything works fine if I remove the package line from the top of each file, but I'd rather know how it is supposed to work.

Thanks.

If you have not yet, see Creating and Using Packages (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Packages)
In elementary terms, packages are basically directories. How are you trying to compile/run the classes? Command line? IDE?

Thanks copeg, I did stumble across that link, that's what tipped me off about creating a folder.

I'm using the command line to compile and run classes. The commands I used (javac, java) can be seen in my original post.

If it's relevent I'm using the diablo-jdk package on FreeBSD 8-STABLE

Sorry, missed the command-line text in your original post. Try compiling and running from the root of the package. If you have a folder named 'FabricCuts', and all .java files of the FabricCuts package are in that folder, go one directory up and type 'javac FabricCuts/myclass.java Same goes for running it.

Ah ha. Thank you very much.