Re: How to make CLASSPATH behave like PATH on Windows?
From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 03:20:17 -0500
Interesting.......
-- All the Best, Kelly Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "Quiks" <gregory.guy@metamindsolutions.com> wrote in message news:fc7cef5c.0408300011.92c200b@posting.google.com... > Hi, > > I don't think you can do that..... You'll have to use some tricky > methods for that..... > > Quiks > -------------- > BTW: For those who have to do with monitoring, check the site: > http://www.metamindsolutions.com. It's a great multiplatform > monitoring solution and seems to have been adopted by large accounts > > > "David Cook" <(who wants to know?)> wrote in message > news:<FMKdnf4ZbY8gjbjcRVn-jQ@comcast.com>... >> Windows (XP and NT) allows one to specify environmental variable >> (such as PATH and CLASSPATH) at both the SYSTEM-wide level >> as well as at the per-USER level. >> >> And the behavior has always been that the value of one's PATH list is >> the concatenation of those two ENV specifications. >> >> So, the $64 question is: Is there some way to coerce the resulting >> CLASSPATH list to also be a concatenation of both the SYSTEM >> and the USER's lists? >> >> (Hopefully, some sort of registry hack can accomplish this!?) >> >> The reason I ask is that today, after installing a Sun 'product' called >> JMF (Java Media Framework), it BROKE my existing CLASSPATH >> setup. The reason it BROKE it was that BEFORE the installation, >> I had my CLASSPATH defined (only) at the SYSTEM level, and it >> got inherited into my USER level. But, the (stupid?) JMF kit decided >> to 'add' some stuff of its own to the USER classpath, and since one >> didn't exist at all, it created one and put its stuff in it. >> >> BUT the unwanted side-effect of that (brilliant?) idea was that now >> the only resulting CLASSPATH that the users have is this new one that >> the kit created and all the existing entries on the SYSTEM-wide defn >> of CLASSPATH now get tossed into the bit-bucket. >> >> Any SUN Java architects out there who can rule on this? Is this a >> bug or a feature of the JMF kit? (A registry hack or something similar >> for a workaround would be nice.) >> >> Cheers... >> >> Dave
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