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Article #896Re: Assigning an environment variable
From: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 05:34
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 05:34
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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:24:28 -0400, Maritza Roldan Campos wrote:
> In batch file or from the command prompt I try many variations but none of
> those worked:
>
> set myYar=c:\myDir\myJar.jar myTargetDir
>
> set myYar=c:\myDir\myJar.jar!\myTargetDir
>
> set myYar=c:\myDir\myJar.jar\myTargetDir
None of these are close to the one that I suggested, which was:
jar:file:D:/aaa/bbb/ccc/JarFile.jar!/xxx/yyy/zzz
> Basically this is my situation: I have dll file. One of the
> methods takes the parameter and accordingly is looking for
> environment variable in Windows system. If it has been found,
> then the application refers according the path to this
> directory for grabing some data.
You need to know what the method expects as an argument. Your
environment variable cannot be "equal" to a directory; it can
only hold a string. It is up to that method to interpret this
string.
> In my case this directory is located in jar file. The situation
> makes me to keep it there.
Does the method in the DLL know how to handle JAR files? If not,
you are not going to get very far.
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John McGrath [TeamB]
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