Cross-platform - Java: To disambiguate between a directory and a link to a directory, you will need to use the concept of an Absolute Path. The absolute path will show the true, fully expanded path name, whereas the Canonical Path will follow the symbolic link.
HTH Stu On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 22:31, Ken Foskey wrote: > I have a configure problem for OOo. /usr/bin/ant is a link to > /usr/share/ant/bin/ant. I need to find the ultimate source for that > link so that the ANT_HOME directory is set correctly. > > Is there an easy cross platform way to do that? > > -- > Thanks > KenF > OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
