Re: java.lang.System question

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From: Andrew Bennett
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 00:00

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Rekha Venkatesh wrote:

>         does anybody know how to get the value for an environment variable?. I am
> looking fro an equivalent on "getenv(String)" method. In java.lang.System
> class there is a "getenv" method, but is deprecated. There is no
> information on what the alternate method is. Any help is appreciated.

JavaSoft nuked it due to a cross-platform issue.

They only way around it is to use the -D parameter to java.exe and
create a property read with getProperty().




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