Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 87584 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2001 17:34:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO osaka.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.133) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Nov 2001 17:34:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 26215 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2001 17:36:54 -0000 Received: from nagoya.betaversion.org (192.18.49.131) by osaka.betaversion.org with SMTP; 2 Nov 2001 17:36:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 8846 invoked by uid 97); 2 Nov 2001 17:33:52 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 8812 invoked by uid 97); 2 Nov 2001 17:33:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 8767 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2001 17:33:51 -0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0 Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 10:34:22 -0700 From: "Jeff Tulley" To: Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-ant/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types PathTest.java Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N It is similar to "dos-based" in its path and classpath separations, but = the long volume names and subtleties in whether or not a path name should = be specified with java commands are different. So, I don't know if you = can generally lump us in the "dos-based" category, since this assumption = breaks down in some places. Maybe I am misunderstanding where you are = going to make this distinction, and it will turn out to be fine. Jeff Tulley (jtulley@novell.com) (801)861-5322 Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net services software. >>> bodewig@apache.org 11/2/01 12:14:04 AM >>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jeff Tulley wrote: > It seems like there was an env thing in their somewhere also, that > needed to be cleared up for NetWare. "env" is a system console > command in netware, so can be executed without any path at all. I'll adapt to that, please take a look at my commit that should happen sometime today. > 2) We use ";" (semi-colon) for classpath separators So Os.java will consider it DOS based (whatever that means in detail) - is this a good assumption or should the code specifcally exclude NetWare. Given your description, we probably better say netware is nor DOS-based. > 3) We have something similar to drive letters, volume names, which > can be up to 40 characters large, followed by a colon. data:\ (or > data:/) for example. > 4) if you do not specify a volume name, (/usr/bin), NetWare assumes > the sytem volume, "SYS:/usr/bin" Reminds me on my old VMS days ... Stefan who sometimes misses his VAX-Station. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: