John M. Gabriele writes: > I'm going to get my "hello world" servlet running > tonight in FC4, and was about to build my .java file > into a .class file so it can go in > /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/my_test_area/WEB-INF/classes > and started to type: > gcj -C --classpath=/var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib/... > when I noticed that all the jars in that directory > have square brackets in the names. > > Why are they named that way? It's to do with the way that jpackage.org have chosen to represent symbolic links. These brackets have cause us many, many problems in scripts and we hope to eliminate them in the future. In the meantime, however, we'll continue to suffer. Andrew.
