Right then.
I notice that the GIMP is very in that it creates a `~/.gimp subdirectory'
to place multiple configurations. So does the the CDE on my Solaris box in
`~/.dt'. On non-Unix machine the `dot' directory does not make a lot of
sense. Is there a way to find if the JVM is running on a unix box or not?
If not I can do it the hard way.
can you mail me your UNIX & non UNIX settings:
System.out.println( "os.name = "+ System.getProperty( "os.name"));
System.out.println( "os.arch = "+ System.getProperty( "os.arch"));
System.out.println( "os.version = "+ System.getProperty( "os.version"));
Somebody must have already have done this, if not I publish the results in
a web table in 1999!
Peter Pilgrim
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Subject: Re: Reading (All) Environment Variables in W95/NT
Author: summer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at lon-mime
Date: 15/12/98 15:44
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok assuming you can do 3 __where__ is the standard place for the property file
s
> per user per machine? I think it is best to write a software installer program
> to do this task. It would write the property file to `user.home' say and the
> main application would know where to look for it and load that file and make i
t
> a environment settings default.
>
There is a convention on unix that user's config stuff ins written in ~/
with the result my home directory's become littered with dozens of .*rc
files.
I've settled on putting mine in ~/etc/
You can find the home directory from the system properties and build a valid
directory name for the runtime environment using other information there. I
don't know what MACs impose, but on OS/2 it's reasonable to assume long file
names (HPFS is optional, but lots of other software requires it possibly
including java: I have OS/2 plus java, but as I have no FAT partitions the
question didn't come up. NT's NTFS also allows long names: neither's case
sensitive though so AB.DATA = ab.datA. Don't know the rules for WIN9x, but I
assume that it's compatible in this respect with NT.
>
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Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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