----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cab.java - use libcabinet on Unix to create Cab-Files
> >>>>> "NS" == Nico Seessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NS> Another possibility would be to use com.ms.util.cab-Package but > NS> the user would need to provide the corrent jar-file containing > NS> these classes by hand > > Danger, non-Microsoft user alert, this questions may be stupid! Maybe it seemed more complicated than it was meant :-) > Why would one need to pass the JAR file by hand? Wouldn't it be enough > to place the classes in the CLASSPATH? > > Furthermore, are these classes pure Java or do they require native > code? They seem to be pure java (I succesfully tested it on RedHat 7.0 :-) ) > What about the license, can I go to Microsoft and download them > freely, place them on my FreeBSD box and play with them? That was what I meant with "the user would need to provide the corrent jar-file containing these classes by hand" - these classes are included with the MS VM, you can create a files C:\WinNT\java\classes\classes.zip from the internal magic package-store (Package-Manager) MS is using, extract the classes from there, put them in a new JAR and put this on your CLASSPATH. Not the simpliest thing to do :-) I don't know what licensing issues are coming into place then, I don't think anyone will say something if you repackage some classes for personal use (but we could not distribute them with Ant I guess :-) ) On the other hand it was easier to implement this than to compile libcabinet on RH7 :-( Nico
