Christopher Molnar wrote: > "/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_06" , so keying on the > presence of that directory is a good bet Java is installed with the > correct version.
No, that's not a good bet at all. That directory is only spelled "Program Files" in the English localization. In other versions of windows it defaults to "\Archivos de programa", "\Programme", and so on. It could be on any drive letter. Or the user might have chosen something else entirely like "z:\foobar". And not everyone has their cygdrive prefix set to "/cygdrive" either. You can't make any such kind of assumption about paths whatsoever. Brian