Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: runtime.exec problems Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:54:52 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5671 On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:58:27 -0700 (PDT), Memo wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I can't get runtime.exec to execute a program in Java. I am trying to >execute a bat file. I read that in order to run bat files as opposed >to .exe files the runtime command has to include "cmd /c start" before >the name of the bat file. I have run bat files successfully this way >before. see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html for the standard gotchas. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the great annoyances in programming derives from the irregularity of English spelling especially when you have international teams. I want to find a method or variable, but I don't know precisely how its is spelled or worded. English is only approximately phonetic. Letters are randomly doubled. The dictionary often lists variant spellings. British, Canadian and American spellings differ.I would like to see an experiment where variable names were spelled in a simplified English, where there were no double letters.I also think you could add a number of rules about composing variable names so that a variable name for something would be highly predictable. You would also need automated enforcement of the rules as well as possible.