Assigning an environment variable

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4 total messages Started by Maritza Roldan Campos Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:51

#893

Author: Maritza Roldan Campos
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:51

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Hello,

I have a jar file, inside of this jar file I have a directory called
MyDirectory.
Question: How to assign the system environment variable to that directory?

Example:

MyFile.Jar -> MyDirectory

On the Environment Variable, what should I assign to the variable:
set myDirectory = ?

Thank you very much in advance!

Maritza.

Re: Assigning an environment variable

#894

Author: John McGrath TeamB
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:06

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:51:49 -0400, Maritza Roldan Campos wrote:

> I have a jar file, inside of this jar file I have a directory called
> MyDirectory.
> Question: How to assign the system environment variable to that directory?

You could use a string specifying the URL of that directory.  The URL 
string would look something like this:

   jar:file:D:/aaa/bbb/ccc/JarFile.jar!/xxx/yyy/zzz

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Re: Assigning an environment variable

#895

Author: Maritza Roldan Campos
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:24

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Hello again,

Thank you for the information provided!

Based on that I tried to do the following:

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

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.

In my case this directory is located in jar file. The situation makes me to
keep it there.

How to assign the environment variable using DOS command to be equal to this
directory in

side jar file?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Maritza.

"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.17a9352326246c998b8aa@newsgroups.borland.com...
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:51:49 -0400, Maritza Roldan Campos wrote:
>
> > I have a jar file, inside of this jar file I have a directory called
> > MyDirectory.
> > Question: How to assign the system environment variable to that
directory?
>
> You could use a string specifying the URL of that directory.  The URL
> string would look something like this:
>
>    jar:file:D:/aaa/bbb/ccc/JarFile.jar!/xxx/yyy/zzz
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath [TeamB]
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
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Re: Assigning an environment variable

#896

Author: John McGrath TeamB
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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