Table 6.1.
The shell dialog simulates a command shell of your operating system. It has been developed, because it might be nescessary to use shell commands to compile and run applications. Since you would have to set up a lot of complicated path settings, depending on your OS this shell helps you to prevent this problem. It always starts in the current working directory of the current program, if any is open; otherwise it stores the last working directory and switches to that. All standard Java applications are available in the shell without setting any variables. Moreover, you can start the shell in a separate virtual machine. You can activate this within the preferences dialog. |
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