RE: jcvs question (setting user.home on startup)

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

On Thu, Sep 24 1998, Kumar, Sushil wrote:
> I was able to run jcvs with a command line option of "-home c:\users". When
> i did the 'Add to Project List", it tried to save to d:\users\... .,
> obviously it is not picking up c:\users for "Add to Project List".
> 
> Could you tell me what the property should be in the jcvsrc.txt file in
> order to define the user.home value.  This willl enable me to get rid of the
> command line parameter "-home" used above.

The way to specify your home directory is via the "-D" option to the
java VM. To do this, you would use:

   java -Duser.home=C:/users com.ice.jcvs.CVSApplication

When jCVS starts, it will print what it believes user.home is.

tim.
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