Freemind Portable !!!

Freemind works for me as a portable app after the following set-up steps.

1. Create a directory structure on a USB flash drive
PortableApps\CmdoW
PortableApps\FreeMind
PortableApps\Java

2. Download the following:
cmdow.zip from
http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html
freemind-bin-max-0_8_0.zip from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118

3. Extract using Universal Extractor to the folders created in step 1

4. From a PC with Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0_06 installed copy
the directory jre1.5.0_06 to the Java directory created in step 1

5. Edit PortableApps\FreeMind\freemind.bat to read as follows:
@echo off
cd..
cd cmdow
cmdow.exe @ /HID
cd..
cd FreeMind ..\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\java -Duser.home=. -cp lib\freemind.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-api.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-impl.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-libs.jar;lib\ant\lib\namespace.jar;lib\ant\lib\relaxngDatatype.jar;lib\ant\lib\xsdlib.jar;lib\ant\lib\jax-qname.jar;lib\ant\lib\sax.jar;lib\ant\lib\dom.jar freemind.main.FreeMind

6. Run freemind.bat to start FreeMind.


Notes:
Using CmdoW is optional as it is used here only to close the
command window opened by freemind.bat. If this is not required
remove the lines that reference cmdow in freemind.bat.

In freemind.bat, the use of "-Duser.home=." ensures that FreeMind
configuration files are placed in the same directory as freemind.bat,
rather than Documents and Settings...

In freemind.bat the line that starts "cd FreeMind ..\Java..." upto and
including "...freemind.main.Freemind" should be on one line.