Sure, but the Java white papers keep mentioning things like
"platform independent"...  I figure they must have *some* reason for it...

Aaron

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Burkhart,Kelly wrote:
> Why is it an ugly solution?  Unix apps do this sort of thing frequently.  It
> works fine.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I'm working on an installer that also needs to find out this 
> > information.
> > IBM Alphaworks has an Install Toolkit for Java that includes 
> > some classes
> > for doing this sort of thing.  For UNIX/Linux they just call 
> > df and parse
> > the output.  Sure, it's an ugly solution, but if it works and 
> > saves you
> > from writing some irritating parsing code...


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