Hi Mark,
> What I can't figure out is where the initial \ is coming from. Can you run
> the following code on your system and post the output?
now that you pointed this out I remember that I came over same issue already
with some other apps;
and it turned out that they do check for absolute paths, but dont take into
account that on NetWare the volume name can be up to 16 chars I think - but
there's often only a check for Windows drive letters = one char followed by a
colon; but as you see the standard volume is SYS: which are already 3 chars
followed by colon; so maybe someone changed somewhere the logic to detect
absolute paths but forgot a check for NetWare? Or what I also came over was
that a check for a protocol prefix (like http: or file:) detected sys: as
unknown protocol...
The downside is here that file: or http: would also be valid volume names on
NetWare, and so there's no real way to differ between a protocol specifier and
a volume name, argh! Fortunately the standard volume is always named sys: and
that's where most Java stuff gets installed....
> package org.apache.markt;
> import java.io.File;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.net.URL;
> public class NetWareTest {
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
> File testDir1 = new File(".");
> System.out.println(testDir1.getCanonicalPath());
> File testDir2 = new File(testDir1.getCanonicalPath());
> System.out.println(testDir2.getCanonicalPath());
> URL outURL = testDir2.toURL();
> String outURI = outURL.toString();
> System.out.println(outURI);
> outURL = new URL(outURI);
> File outDirF = new File(outURL.getFile());
> System.out.println(outDirF.getCanonicalPath());
> }
> }
I see nothing unusual with that - NetWare behaves here exactly same as Windows;
OS: NetWare
VM: 1.4.2
SYS:\nwtest
SYS:\nwtest
file:/SYS:/nwtest/
SYS:\nwtest
java: Class org.apache.markt.NetWareTest exited successfully
OS: Windows XP
VM: 1.4.2_12-b03
D:\projects\java\nwtest
D:\projects\java\nwtest
file:/D:/projects/java/nwtest/
D:\projects\java\nwtest
thanks for looking into this issue, Guenter.
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