I finally got the train command to run :) Thanks a lot for your help
Bob. I did receive an error after the command but I don't know if
it's significant. Here is the readout from the cmd prompt:

Tag Parser=com.aliasi.ne.muc.TagParserMUC
Reading training data from file=baf.xml
Reading training data from file=clv.xml
Reading training data from file=clw.xml
Reading training data from file=cmb.xml
Reading training data from file=cow.xml
Reading training data from file=edu.xml
Reading training data from file=fbc.xml
Reading training data from file=gra.xml
Reading training data from file=grg.xml
Reading training data from file=lfc.xml
Reading training data from file=mat.xml
Reading training data from file=mau.xml
Reading training data from file=mcb.xml
Reading training data from file=ncf.xml
Reading training data from file=sme.xml
Reading training data from file=tof.xml
Reading training data from file=wac.xml
Reading training data from file=whe.xml
Reading training data from file=win.xml
Reading training data from file=wio.xml
Exceptiong during training=java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
com.aliasi.util.AbstractCommand.getArgumentCreatableFile(AbstractComm
and.java:343)
at
com.aliasi.ne.command.AbstractNECommand.getModelFile(AbstractNEComman
d.java:722)
at
com.aliasi.ne.command.NETrainCommand.run(NETrainCommand.java:110)
at
com.aliasi.ne.command.NETrainCommand.main(NETrainCommand.java:133)


Do I need to worry about this?