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On 06/22/2011 06:56 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 11-06-21 10:52 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 06/20/2011 05:24 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>
> That may be so, but it's not unanimous. Another camp, and I'm in it, is
> happy to leave things as is.
>
> Joe Average Computer User doesn't normally open up a terminal or a
> command prompt and run Java commands. So this is really a discussion
> about making a simple thing easier for _techie_ types. I don't think it
> warrants the effort, and in some ways it introduces problems where none
> existed before. Simplify the issue for some programmers on some systems;
> complicate it for other programmers on other systems. I don't agree.

I read the OP as wanting to make a simple thing easier for_Gene 
Wirchenko_. Others seem to be addressing a request to "fix" the java 
executable. Maybe Lew is right; we must be precise, precise, precise!