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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:03:04 -0800 (PST)
From: David Robinow <drobinow AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: bash, javac and that pesky slash.
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--- Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa AT cade DOT com DOT br> wrote:
> That's true. jdk is a Windows native application, it
> wasn't compiled with
> cygwin. Therefore, it doesn't understand the '/'
> used by UNIX (cygwin); you
> must use the M$ '\'.
 The "Therefore," above is incorrect.  There are
plenty of non-cygwin apps that recognize '/' as a path
seperator.
>       Also, drives must be referenced
> by their "names" (e.g.
> "D:" in your case, and not "//d"). Other: the
 This part is true.
> CLASSPATH environment variable
> must use M$-path-style also, because it is meant to
> be interpreted by jdk tools.
 Could be, I know nothing at all about java/jdk.


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