RE: Out Of Environment Space on Windows 98

From: Cris Daniluk (cris.danilu..laraview.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 13:58:11 EST

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    As an option, you can do a conditional in the batch file to detect
    Win95/98/ME vs 2k/XP fairly easily by looking at the environment.

    I have some examples if necessary, but... Who uses Win98 for Java
    development anyway? :)

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:andru..bjectstyle.org]
    > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:52 PM
    > To: cayenne-deve..bjectstyle.org
    > Subject: Re: Out Of Environment Space on Windows 98
    >
    > 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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