Well,
First of all this is information you asked for.
os.name = Windows NT
os.arch = x86
os.version = 4.0
Then, why do you think this practice (with directories in user.home
started from .) is bad on WIN32? Yes, files started from '.' are visible
in explorer, so what? Sun's Workshop and my software and many other
softwares (even not written on java, e.g. Netscape Communicator) still
use directories and files instead of registry to store settings on 'by
user' basis. Storing settings on 'by machine' basis is not standardized
on Unix and is also difficult on Win32 (registry has more drawbacks than
advantages). Note that currently (Java 1.1 platform) user.home on NT is
set to directory %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% but in 1.2. it will be set to
directory %USERPROFILE% that actually plays more as Unix home directory
on Windows NT than %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% (it is so usual for Microsoft
to change the meaning of well known words in their products ;-) ).
All the Best
Pavel
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>
> 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
