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Re: How do I do a getenv under the pre-beta JDK?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ball)
Fri Sep 29 13:35:18 1995

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:02:23 -0700
From: tball@alapa@sun.com (Thomas Ball)
To: etmmhann@kryten.cms.livjm.ac.uk
Cc: java-interest@java@sun.com

You don't anymore -- some systems don't have the concept of an
envionment (such as Macintosh) and so code which relied on it
isn't portable.  The correct way to get system-specific information
is either through Properties or command line arguments.  

Tom

>  Hi,
>  
>  Since the  System.getenv("....")  command has been
>  made obselete in the pre-beta JDK, how can you
>  extract the value of environment variables under
>  the JDK frozen api?
>  
>  --
>  Martin Hanneghan
>  Liverpool John Moores University
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