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Shankar Unni wrote:
> Oliver wrote:
> 
>> at the moment im trying to retrieve the standard program path 
>> ("C:\Programme"
> 
>  > or "C:\Program Files" or ... it�s language dependent) from Windows 2000
>  > with my Java program (JDK 1.5).
> 
> Have you tried looking for an environment variable (or property) called 
> "ProgramFiles" or "PROGRAMFILES" (depending on which sort of shell you 
> start your program from)?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv(java.lang.String)

On my Windows 2003 Server, the environment variable is "ProgramFiles"

Note that System.getenv() was deprecated from JDK 1.1 to JDK 1.4, 
resurfacing in JDK 1.5.

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Regards,

Lori Olson [TeamB]

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