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Re: retrieving standard program path from Windows

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From: Oliver
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:54
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Hello,

thank you both. I have one little remaining question: how can i read from the OutputStream? (toString() returns the address of the object, but where is the content?)

Oliver


Shankar Unni <shankarunni@netscape.net> wrote:
>Lori M Olson [TeamB] wrote:
>
>> Not without the use of JNI.
>
>Or by the classic dodge of exec'ing a helper program to write out the 
>values of environment variables:
>
>   Process p = Runtime.getRuntim().exec("cmd /c echo '%PROGRAMFILES%'");
>   // Read the output from p.getOutputStream()
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