Steve M wrote: About your main problem: I'm still convinced that it's the order of -jar and -D that is important, see my other post.
> I have tried (not entirely systematically but pretty exhaustively) > every combination of backslashes in the cmd string, e.g.: > -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\:\\config > -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\\config > -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\\:\config > -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\\:\\config > etc. A hint: - if you're unsure how something must be entered as a literal, test it in the interactive interpreter: >>> raw_input ('enter a path: ') enter a path: c:\config 'c:\\config' Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list