Bug in windows installer

Question

The windows installer for jmf seems to overwrite the CLASSPATH instead of appending, which you would expect.
/Esben

Answer 1

"wpqs" wrote
There seems to be a bug in Windows 7 when setting the Environment Path Variable from Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - System Variables - select Path - click Edit - opens The Edit System Variable dialog box
The Edit System Variable dialog box displayed the same collection of path strings (each terminated by ';') as I get when I opened a command prompt window and type 'path'. However, it was not possible to add a new path string (c:\wills\bin;) after the last
string. I presumed that the collection of path strings was too long so I removed a few of the path strings. Unfortunately, I still couldn't type my new path string.
BUG1: I would appear that length validation for text control in the Edit System Variable dialog box is not set to the same length as the max length for the collection of path strings.
BUG2: I was eventually able to enter my new path string after deleting some more path strings, but I hit further problems after saving my new path variable (press OK) as it seemed to delete some path strings at the start of the collection. For example %SystemRoot%\system32.
Therefore, I was unable to reopen the dialog box from Control Panel.
https://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2007/09/17/maximum-length-of-environment-variables-windows.aspx
may help :)
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