I think we shouldn't change any of the existing scripts just so that they
work on Windows 98 ... Who cares! I would simply put an entry in the FAQ
explaining how to modify the existing script.
Andrus
> I'm finally testing Cayenne under Win98 in order to fix this issue:
>
> http://objectstyle.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=CAY-99
>
> The patch works fine, but I hit another error.
>
> It turns out that Win9x only allows 256 characters by default in the
> environment!
>
> Considering a minimal set of the following, that's 159 characters.
>
> CAYENNE_HOME=..
> MAIN_CLASS=org.objectstyle.cayenne.modeler.Main
> JAVACMD=%JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw
> DEFAULT_CLASSPATH=%CAYENNE_HOME%\lib\modeler\cayenne-modeler.jar
>
> You also have to add in JAVA_HOME which is going to be a minimum of
> another 25 characters.
>
> So we're looking at around 184 characters JUST for cayenne's modeler.bat
> file.
>
> That means there can't be more than 70 characters in the environment to
> start with.
> My bare-minimum fresh windows 98 install has 170 characters defined in
> the environment.
>
> That only leaves 80 characters, provided my math is right.
>
> I shorted DEFAULT_CLASSPATH to DC and made it work.
>
> Is there a point to making this more Win9x friendly?
> Or should we just document the problem?
>
> -Mike
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