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Re: Put a value to system variables

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From: David Orriss, Jr. [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:19
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:29 +0200, tolis wrote:

> Hello,
> I mean that i want to write(add, give) from my java code a value e.g.
> 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office'
> into System Variable of window(Path) (start-->control
> panel-->System-->Advanced-->Enviroment Variables-->System
> Variables-->(Variable = Path and value = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> Office\Office' )
> 
> Thanks in Advance.
> Apostolis
> Hatziyannis

When you start the application you can say:

java -Dofficevar=$VARIABLE 

Where VARIABLE is the name of your system variable that you defined the way
you described above and you can retrieve the value in the Java code using
System.getProperty().

HTH

Yasou..

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