Try something like this in your NT/95 startup script (smth like this
must work also on linux/bash with changing \ to /, %% to $, del to rm
and doing smth with :s and ;s in multiple paths in environment):
set >%TMP%\env
java -Denv.file=%TMP%\env ...
del %TMP%\env
and then in your code:
Properties p = new Properties();
p.load(new FileInputStream(System.getProperty("env.file")); //
Hope this helps.
All the Best
Pavel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am getting some requests from NT users on an application that I wrote on
> a Java/Linux environment. I have a Java application that runs fine on Unix
> and I am trying to get to run perfectly on NT. I have a run time shell
> script that passes the entire environment to the JVM using a system
> property.
>
> java -Denv=`env` xenon.xsql.editor.Xsql
>
> The env produces the multiline environment variables list that we know and
> love. On running the application the program looks for the value of system
> property called `env'. Hence the JVM gets the entire environment. I have
> source code that breaks down the multiline value and cuts out each variable
> definition like `HOME=/home/peterp'. The definition is further split into a
> name and value (`HOME' and `/home/peterp') and then place stored in the
> system properties as renamed property `env.HOME' and `/home/peterp'. In
> short all the environment variable are prepended with `env.'. Using this
> hand-me-down old deprecated source code from an unknown URL, I can write
> code like this:
>
> String imagesDir=System.getProperty("env.IMAGES_DIR");
> String searchPath=System.getProperty("env.JAVAFILESEARCHPATH");
>
>
> Of course this does not work with Windows NT (or 95/98). I am not an expert
> on NT. I do not think there is an equivalent for `env' under NT.
> Is there such thing ?
>
> Of course I could write a work around that involve just passing a limited
> number of properties to JVM in a NT batch command `.BAT' file.
>
> java -DIMAGES_DIR=%IMAGES_DIR% ... xenon.sql.editor.Xsql
>
> Admittedly the full final code would look terrible ugly. I am clueless if
> the DOS? W95/NT Shell allows long character lines. Can you even do `back
> subtitution' using the W95/NT shell is also quite another thing as well?
> Also when I tried extending my `PATH' under W95 I got `out of environment
> space' or something?
>
> However do any other java-linuxers know of a better solution or API?
>
> Any help receives my grateful kudos.
>
> Pete
