A quick glance shows a reference to a batch file needed for Windows95/98. My concern is that this may be a complex thing for [lang], although it probably is useful (I've never needed it) Stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "__matthewHawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I posted something a while back about adding a method or class to access > environment vars. Henri suggested that I take a look at Ant's solution > to this. > > Ant's env var access is obtained through their <execute> task. This > class has a lot of logic to handle different OS's, and I think that a > refactored version may be a worthwhile addition to lang. > > I had my own small class to do this, but I would image that Ant's > version has been more thoroughly tested and bulletproofed. > > Here's the link to Ant's Execute class. > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs /Execute.java?rev=1.70&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > Any thoughts? I think this would be very useful -- just about every > project that I've worked on has had to access env vars at some point or > another. And providing a nice simple way to execute system commands and > grab the output would be cool. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
