Trying to understand the PATH variable

Greetings,
I read that the PATH variable specifies a set of directories where executable programs are located. But if I use "echo $PATH" in Terminal to view the directories, it does not list the Applications folder or the Downloads folder or any of the other places I have programs. So how to they run?
Thanks

The PATH variable is a list of search paths used by a particular shell. Basically, when you enter a command in a command-line context (such as from within Terminal.app), the unix system will search for executables in all of the folders listed in the PATH variable, running the first it finds.
Apps that are run from the GUI are launched by the launch services daemon, which takes care of all the details of locating and loading executable. Launch services maintains a database of app locations, so it wouldn't need to search along unix PATHs to find what it needs.

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Hi,
I am trying to understand the following bit of code, currently the code puts each catalogue into a different row of the table but i want each catalogue to be put in the next column
(so the catalogues appear across the page on the actual web page). The following code is for the page in question but im not sure how much is relevant so i will paste it all and highlight the section i think is relevant:
<html>
<%-- DECLARATIONS --%>
<%@ page import="se.ibs.ns.cf.*, se.ibs.ccf.*, se.ibs.bap.*, se.ibs.bap.util.*, se.ibs.bap.web.*, java.util.*, se.ibs.ns.icat.*, se.ibs.bap.asw.cf.*, java.lang.*" %>
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%>
<%@ include file="FuncHead.jsp" %>
<BODY class="IBSBody" onLoad="loaded = true;">
<form method="POST" action=<%= bean.getEncodedServlet("se.ibs.ns.icat.ItemCatalogueSearchServlet", response) %> name="basicForm">
<%@ include file="FuncSubmitScript.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="FuncPageBegin.jsp" %>
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<table border="0" width="895">
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      <td align="left" width="502">
<div align="left">
<table border="0" width="500">
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      <td class="IBSPageTitleText" align="left" valign="top" width="238">
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       links to go to the next level. Alternatively you can click the <b>Search
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<hr>
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<% Vector catalogues = bean.getItemCatalogues();
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</html>i hope someone could help me to understand this,
thank you for your help

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http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/Array.html
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The following code:
private function createLabels():void
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gives the following results:
i = 0
one
i = 1
two
i = 2
3
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private function createLabels():void
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Hope that helps.
Cheers!

Trying to understand the basic concept of object oriented programming.

I am trying to understand the basic concept of object oriented programming.
Object - a region of storage that define is defined by both state/behavior.
( An object is the actual thing that behavior affects.)
State - Represented by a set of variables and the values they contain.
(Is the location or movement or action that is the goal that the behavior is trying to accomplish.)
Variables- (What does this mean?)
Value - (What does this mean?)
Behavior - Represented by a set of methods and the logic they implement.
( A set of methods that is built up to tell's the how object to change it's state. )
Methods - A procedure that is executed when an object receives a message.
( A very basic comand.For example the method tells the object to move up, another method tells the method to go left. Thus making the object move up/left that combination is the behavior.)
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( I am very confused on what classes are.)
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Object oriented programming is a replacement for the older idea of procedural programming (you can research procedural programming in google). As I understand it, in procedural programming, you have a step by step set of function calls to accomplish some task. Each function receives a data structure, manipulates it, and passes it to the next function. The problem with this is that each function preforms some action for the overall task and can't easily be reused by some other task. Its also harder to read the flow of what is happening with raw data structures flying all over the place.
In object oriented programming, an object calls a function of another object and receives back, not a data structure, but another object. Objects contain a data structure that can only be accessed by its functions. An object is not so much a sub component of a bigger task, as it is a service that any other task can use for any purpose. Also, when you pass an object to the caller, the caller can ask questions about the data structure via its functions. The developer doesnt have to know what the previous function did to the data by reading up on any documentation, or having to reverse engineer the code.
I suggest the best way of learning this is to code something like a library object.
A library object contains a collection of book objects
A book object contains a collection of chapter objects
A chapter object contains a collection of paragraph objects
A paragraph object contains a collection of sentence objects
A sentence object contains a collection of word objects.
Add functions to each object to provide a service
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public void addBook(Book book)
public Book getBook(String title)
public boolean isBookInLibrary(String title)
The key is to add functions to provide a service to anyone who uses your object(s)
For example, what functions (service) should a paragraph object provide?
It shouldn't provide a function that tells how many words there are in a sentence. That function belongs to a sentence object.
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if you write your objects well:
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The book should ask each chapter how many words it contains.
Each chapter should ask its paragraphs, each paragraph should ask
its sentences. The total of words should ripple up and be tallied at each
stage until it reaches the book. The book can then report the total.
Only the sentence object actually counts words. The other objects just tallies the counts.
Now, where would you assign a librarian? What object(s) and functions would you provide?
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I am trying to understand the licensing procedures for using tabKiller for 3.5.7 firefox. Who should I contact for this? I do not see any customer service phone number for Firefox

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[SOLVED] Trying to understand the "size on disk" concept

Hi all,
I was trying to understand the difference between "size" and "size on disk".
A google search gave plenty of results and I thought I got a clear idea about
it.. All data is stored in small chunks of a fixed size depending on the
filesystem and the last chunk is going to have some wasted space which
will *have* to be allocated.. Thus the extra space on disk.
However I'm still confused.. When I look at my home folder, the size on disk
is more than 320 GB, where as my partition is actually less than 80 GB, so
I guess I'm missing something.. Could somebody explain to me what does
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Thanks a lot in advance..
Last edited by geo909 (2011-12-15 23:17:25)

Hi all,
Thank you for your replies.. My file manager is indeed pcman fm and
indeed it seems to be an issue.. In b4data's link the last post reads:
B-Con wrote:
FWIW, I found the problem. (This bug is still persistent in v0.9.9.)
My (new) PCManFM bug report is here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph … tid=801864
I submitted a potential patch here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=de … tid=801866
Bottom line is that the file's block size and block count data from the file's inode wasn't being interpreted and used properly. The bug is in PCManFM, not any dependent libraries. Details are in the bug report.
Since PCManFM is highly used by the Arch community, I figured I should post an update here so that there's some record of it in our community. Hopefully this gets addressed by the developer(s) relatively soon. :-)
I guess that pretty much explains things.. And I think I did understand the 'size on disk' concept
anyway
Thanks again!
Last edited by geo909 (2011-12-15 23:17:10)

Trying to understand the sound system

Here's my problem. My mic didn't work (neither the front mic nor the line-in in the rear), so after some research and trial and error I found that if I do
modprobe soundcore
my mic works on both the jacks
But here's where my confusion lies. This is the output of lsmod |grep snd before probing explicitly for soundcore
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snd_hda_intel 22122 1
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soundcore 6146 2 snd
[inxs ~ ]$
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Go here:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/docs/
and download the flavor of your choice of the "HD-Audio" document, or simply view it online. It documents the deepest dive into the current ALSA snd_hda_* layers and issues that I've found to date (but still leaves me wanting).
Why that document isn't plastered across the interwebs is beyond me. I only get 11 hits when I search for it... such are the secrets of the ALSA world I guess.
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So we've been running with the default value (0) and have not really had any "problems". I haven't done any testing but I'm ok with faster, like everyone would be, but am also a bit risk averse so want to know what exactly I'm turning off.
I also saw this advice from Rob Tiffany:
Use the appropriate x64, x86 or ARM version of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 to take advantage of the
PostSyncCleanup property of the SqlCeReplication object that can reduce the time it takes to perform an initial synchronization. Set the
PostSyncCleanup property equal to 3 where neither
UpdateStats nor CleanByRetention are performed.
Here: http robtiffany.com/microsoft-sql-server-compact-3-5-sp2-has-arrived/
So, is the best advice to use that parameter and set the value to 3 or 2
I don't really know what I'm losing to "not performing" UpdateStats or CleanByRetention and does making that change need I need to do something else on the server or client to "clear out" or "clean up" something that this is
doing.

Trying to understand the Serialization interface

Im trying to understand the Serialization of objects?
As an example, I create a Library class that implements Serializable, that stores a collection of Book objects
If I am only looking at saving a Library object to file, does the Book class require Serialization also or just the Library?
I have read the API on serialization, no answer there, if it is it's not easy to understand or read into the API...

There are some really important things to know about when doing serialization. For example one important thing to know about that not is mentioned here is that your serializable classes must define its own private static final long serialVersionUID because if you not do that will you not be able to deserialize (read in) the data you have saved later if you change anything in your serializable class. It is a bit tricky to manage files to which you have serialized different versions of your class, that is versions where you have added more serializable members to the class after you have serialized files. Well, it is not a problem if you don´t care if you have to type in all your saved data again every time you change anything instead of deserialize it (read it) from your file of course :)
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Refer to the Installation Instructions for the package that you installed - I believe #5 if the instructions has the information. A link to the instructions is at the page you installed from.

Regarding the path variable. somebody please help !!!

I have a small problem, I have to change the path variable often. So I thought of creating two .bat files to change it when i needed. But the problem is in XP...
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Kawisha.

Hi
First of all as I know there is a limit for the length of the path string.
For the second time if you change the path in a CMD than this doesn't change the path string of the system only the CMD path string has changed.
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http://www.trendo-kft.hu

GNU make ignores the PATH variable

I just want to restate what was said in this post (that is now archived):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2144085
I have the exact same problem. The PATH variable is not taken into account when running simple commands in a makefile. If I change the command to something just a little more complex, like "echo hello && command" it works. So it seems to be an optimisation problem.
I am running GNU Make 3.81 on Mac OS X 10.6.4.

On 08/17/2015 05:50 AM, matt matt wrote:
> Having installed cygwin and editing the PATH variable was not sufficient
> for me because I'm running a user account.
>
> When I run "gcc -v" in cmd.exe I get the output: "..not recognized as an
> internal command"
> When I run "gcc- v" in cmd.exe as administrator this is no problem.
>
> How can I make this work for the user account?
There's an Eclipse forum dedicated to C/C++ questions you might wish to
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Hi,
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1. The docs say: The appclient.jar archive contains native code and can be used on a target machine that is of similar architecture as the machine where it was produced. Is there any way for me to discover what 'native' code is actually needed or is this limited to the shell script or batch file that executes the appclient?
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3. The windows appclient.bat file also contains the following:
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set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%AS_INSTALL%\bin;%AS_NSS%;%LD_LIBRARY_PATH%
set PATH=%AS_INSTALL%\bin;%AS_NSS%;%PATH%There are two things that confuse me about this. First, the docs specify that $AS_NSS should be set to appclient_install_dir\bin for windows. Why is the same directory being added to this path twice? Second, cis.dll does not exist anywhere in the appclient.jar file that was generated from the SJAS install on my windows machine. In fact, the only thing in the bin directory is the appclient.bat file. What's the point of updating LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
The linux appclient script has the same unnecessary redundancy and I don't see any native libraries anywhere in the archive (created on a linux machine). I also came across the following in a linux doc while determining what LD_LIBRARY_PATH was used for:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is handy for development and testing, but shouldn't be modified by an installation process for normal use by normal users; see ``Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is Bad''
The supplied links were broken, but you can google for "why ld_library_path is bad". What is the LD_LIBRARY_PATH being used for in the ACC?
4. I find that I'm having a really difficult time determing what all of the libraries in the lib directory of the appclient archive are for. There are a lot, but, just as an example, admin-cli.jar and toplink-essentials-agent.jar. They're not part of the runtime classpath and are not listed in the Class-Path variable of the manifest of any .jar files that are in the runtime classpath. Is there an easy way for me to determine why some of these libraries are needed?
5. The client-stubs .jar generated by the application server is nearly identical to my .ear file, but has a few extra files in the META-INF directory. As an example, I didn't include an application.xml file, but the client-stubs .jar file has an auto-generated one included. Am I correct in assuming these added configuration files are essential?
6. A lot of the .jar files in the lib directory of the appclient archive have Class-Path variables that list non-existent .jar files. For example, appserv-admin.jar lists rmissl.jar as part of the Class-Path variable, but rmissl.jar does not exist anywhere in the archive. Am I right when I assume these libraries just aren't needed?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan

Hi, Ryan.
This may need to be a multi-part answer, but I can respond to a few of your points quickly; some other questions may need other people's input.
1. native code - From what I understand, past versions of the product may have included more native content that the current version does. I will try to verify this. See also #3 below.
2. XML/XSL JARs - These JARs used to be shipped with the app server before the Java runtime included their contents. The app server no longer includes them but, as you've noted, the appclient script continues to refer to them. It does no harm to include non-existent files in the classpath but it is certainly confusing and unnecessary.
3. AS_NSS - This may be a typo and in the doc and an obsolete comment in the script. The asnss.dll file is in install-dir/lib. Can you point me to where the documentation refers to install-dir/bin? I searched but didn't find it. As for the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I'll need to consult with some folks who are more Linux-literate about it than I am.
4. Regarding the JARs, we are hoping to greatly streamline the number and size of JARs required on the client in GlassFish V3, in connection with some other work that may affect the make-up of the JARs on the server side as well. The current footprint is much larger than we would like. As part of that it will become much clearer what is needed and why.
5. About the added content to the generated app client JAR file... In Java EE 5 deployment descriptors are optional or need not be complete in the sense that they did in previous versions of the spec. During the deployment process the server does a fair amount of work (such as analyzing annotations) to support this. That information is collected into what amounts to the equivalent generated descriptor that is built into the generated client JAR. If an end-user launches a client using the generated app client JAR that analysis does not need to be repeated because the information reside in the generated descriptor, so launching is a bit faster.
6. As for the contents of the Class-Path entries in the JARs, here again I hope we can clean up a lot of that in V3. I suspect entries like the ones you found may be holdovers that were once needed but are not any more.
Sorry for the confusion about what is and is not needed on the client side. I have opened GlassFish issue 2383 (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2383) to help track these problems.
- Tim

Trying to understand the getResource method

Hi!
I'm writing a simple game and I'm using a game framework for java. The framework uses the getResource("path") method on creating every texture. The constructor only accepts the relative path. My problem is I don't want image files to be placed in the build folder. I would like to create textures from an absolute path. I don't want to modify the framework code.
In the Class Loader javadoc I've found that getResorce method executes the findResorce method if it fails on finding the resource. The findResource method should be overriden in a Class Loader implementation. How can I do it?
Thanks.

morgalr wrote:
tom_ex wrote:
Hi!
I'm writing a simple game and I'm using a game framework for java. The framework uses the getResource("path") method on creating every texture. The constructor only accepts the relative path. My problem is I don't want image files to be placed in the build folder. I would like to create textures from an absolute path. I don't want to modify the framework code.
In the Class Loader javadoc I've found that getResorce method executes the findResorce method if it fails on finding the resource. The findResource method should be overriden in a Class Loader implementation. How can I do it?
Thanks.It does this so you can JAR your application, which gives you the ability to distribute an executable with all of your resources included. So your buds will not have to worry about if they have the support files installed to run your application or not.I understand the intention, but it's rather an opposite of what I'm trying to do. In my idea the game on it's first running aks the user for a path. The path points a place where the sounds and images should by downloaded i.e. from an ftp server. On the later runnings the game already know where the images, etc have been downloaded and uses them.

Novice Trying to Set The CLASSPATH Variable

I am trying to compile a file (which can be downloaded at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/QandE/FirstClass.java). Despite being able to successfully compile several other files, this particular one will not compile. According to my JAVA Tutorial book, the problem may lie in the CLASSPATH variable, but I am having a great deal of trouble trying to set/understand it. My operating system is WINDOWS 2000. PLEASE HELP!!!

in win 2000, the classpath can be set by the following process.
Right Click My Computer icon and click on properties.
(This can be done by going to the Control Panel and Double Clicking the System icon too).
Once you have the properties window of the system click on the 'Advanced' tab.
There is a button called 'Environment variables'.Click on it.
You will have a part called 'System Variables' there.
Here there is an entry called Classpath. Just add the entry of what you want to add to the classpath, separating each entry with a ';' semicolon as mentioned there and click on the Set button.
That should set the classpath.If that does not take effect immediately, restart the system and it will take effect.
Tell me if it worx.
All the best. Bye!
Cheers,
Win!

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Hello, Experts!
I am pretty new to Flash Development, so I am trying to understand how to implement the following steps using Flash environment
http://pdfdevjunkie.host.adobe.com/00_helloWorld.shtml
Step 1: Create the top level object. Use a "Module" rather than an "Application" and implement the "acrobat.collection.INavigator" interface. The INavigator interface enables the initial hand shake with the Acrobat ActionScript API. Its only member is the set host function, which your application implements. During the initialize cycle, the Acrobat ActionScript API invokes your set host function. Your set host function then initializes itself, can add event listeners, and performs other setup tasks.Your code might look something like this.
<mx:Module xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" implements="acrobat.collection.INavigator" height="100%" width="100%" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" >
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<mx:DataGrid id="itemList" initialize="onInitialize()" width="350" rowCount="12"> <mx:columns> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="fileName" headerText="Name"/> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid>
Step 3: Respond to the "initialize" event during the creation of your interface components. This is important because there is no coordination of the Flash Player's initialization of your UI components and the set host(), so these two important milestone events in your Navigator's startup phase could occur in either order. The gist of a good way to handler this race condition is to have both your INavigator.set host() implementation and your initialize() or creationComplete() handler both funnel into a common function that starts interacting with the collection only after you have a non-null host and an initialized UI. You'll see in the code samples below and in step 4, both events funnel into the "startEverything()" function. I'll duscuss that function in the 5th step.
               private function onInitialize():void { _listInitialized = true; startEverything(); }

Hello, Experts!
I am pretty new to Flash Development, so I am trying to understand how to implement the following steps using Flash environment
http://pdfdevjunkie.host.adobe.com/00_helloWorld.shtml
Step 1: Create the top level object. Use a "Module" rather than an "Application" and implement the "acrobat.collection.INavigator" interface. The INavigator interface enables the initial hand shake with the Acrobat ActionScript API. Its only member is the set host function, which your application implements. During the initialize cycle, the Acrobat ActionScript API invokes your set host function. Your set host function then initializes itself, can add event listeners, and performs other setup tasks.Your code might look something like this.
<mx:Module xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" implements="acrobat.collection.INavigator" height="100%" width="100%" horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off" >
Step 2: Create your user interface elements. In this example, I'm using a "DataGrid" which is overkill for a simple list but I'm going to expand on this example in the future. Also notice that I'm using "fileName" in the dataField. The "fileName" is a property of an item in the PDF Portfolio "items" collection. Later when we set the dataProvider of the DataGrid, the grid will fill with the fileNames of the files in the Portfolio.
<mx:DataGrid id="itemList" initialize="onInitialize()" width="350" rowCount="12"> <mx:columns> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="fileName" headerText="Name"/> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid>
Step 3: Respond to the "initialize" event during the creation of your interface components. This is important because there is no coordination of the Flash Player's initialization of your UI components and the set host(), so these two important milestone events in your Navigator's startup phase could occur in either order. The gist of a good way to handler this race condition is to have both your INavigator.set host() implementation and your initialize() or creationComplete() handler both funnel into a common function that starts interacting with the collection only after you have a non-null host and an initialized UI. You'll see in the code samples below and in step 4, both events funnel into the "startEverything()" function. I'll duscuss that function in the 5th step.
               private function onInitialize():void { _listInitialized = true; startEverything(); }

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