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Re: Path related launch problems

Brian Davies wrote: 
Had an email from a user "my app won't open, just bounces in the
dock". Turned out he had put it in a folder with the name Audio/Video
Applications and the slash acted as a path separator. Presumably
reflecting UNIX underneath. Another third-Java app I have behaves in
the same way, I found out.  It's uses InstallAnywhere for deployment
into the Applications folder.

This sounds like a bug in the JVM somewhere. You should file a bug report.

'/' and ':' are handled specially in filenames.
The "display name" uses '/' (as seen in Finder)
The "POSIX name" uses ':' (as seen in `ls` and POSIX/Carbon/Cocoa API)
The HFS+ filesystem stores '/' (as seen in the kernel and the disk drive)
Most likely some code used a display name instead of a POSIX name, or vice versa.


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Greg Parker     email@hidden     Runtime Wrangler


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