Windows paths, Java, and command-line arguments, oh my!

[Daniel Dittmar]

Steve M wrote:

About your main problem: I'm still convinced that it's the order of -jar 
and -D that is important, see my other post.

> I have tried (not entirely systematically but pretty exhaustively)
> every combination of backslashes in the cmd string, e.g.:
>  -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\:\\config
>  -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c:\\config
>  -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\\:\config
>  -Dsalesforce.config.dir=c\\:\\config
>  etc.

A hint:
- if you're unsure how something must be entered as a literal, test it 
in the interactive interpreter:

 >>> raw_input ('enter a path: ')
enter a path: c:\config
'c:\\config'

Daniel