I am totally ok with modeler-win98.bat if there is no easy way to guess an
OS version from a batch file. One thin that I found is that on XP "echo
%OS%" prints "Windows_NT", not sure what it does on Win98.
Andrus
> if [ "`uname -s`" = "Windows 98" ]; then
> ...
>
> Oh wait, that won't work. I'd be OK with a separate modeler98-ME.bat
> file unless someone knows a better solution. (I'm sure there is a better
> solution, but Mike already knows how poorly I know Windows at that
> level.)
>
> Albert: Might I suggest http://store.apple.com/ ? :-)
>
> /dev/mrg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:mkienen..laska.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: cayenne-use..bjectstyle.org
> Cc: look..treamyx.com
> Subject: Re: Small issue with modeler.bat (Win98)
>
>
> Albert <look..treamyx.com> wrote:
>> I'm just starting to learn Cayenne (1.1, R2). Running modeler.bat on
>> win98, I need to change the line :
>>
>> start "CayenneModeler" "%JAVACMD%" -cp
> "%CLASSPATH%;%DEFAULT_CLASSPATH%"
>> %MAIN_CLASS% %*
>>
>> (removing "CayenneModeler") to :
>>
>> start "%JAVACMD%" -cp "%CLASSPATH%;%DEFAULT_CLASSPATH%" %MAIN_CLASS%
> %*
>>
>> Else, I get "Bad command or file name".
>>
>> Running on Win XP is fine with modeler.bat unchanged. I suppose
> windows
>> 'start' works differently between os.
>
> I'm the one that introduced that problem.
>
> http://objectstyle.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=CAY-99
>
> I hadn't realized it broke on Windows 9x/ME.
>
> Unfortunately, that change is needed to support spaces in the %JAVACMD%
> under the Windows NT shell (NT/ 2000/XP).
>
> Windows NT (2000 or XP) takes the first argument to be the window title
> if
> it's quoted.
> So start "%JAVACMD%" doesn't work.
> But if it's unquoted -- start %JAVACMD% -- then spaces aren't handled
> properly in the path, and, since java is installed by default in
> "Program
> Files", that breaks most installations.
>
> I'm not certain what a good fix would be yet.
>
> I'd rather see the default behavior to support NT-based shells, but at
> minimum we can add a note in the file for Windows 9x/ME users or we can
> create a separate 9x bat file.
>
> Perhaps I can figure out a way to identify which version of the start
> command to run.
>
> I've reopened and reassigned issue CAY-99 to myself (as my first
> official
> act as a committer) and I've appended Albert's comments to it. Albert,
> if
> you want, you can go to the issue and assign yourself as a watcher for
> this
> issue.
>
> -Mike
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