Yes. It calls java with -jar brailleblaster.jar The library path must be set so it can find the bindings. The script may become more complicated in the real world to take account of all the possibilities. John On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:15:49AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > Hi John, > > What exactly is the purpose of the shell script? > > Does it just call the Java program with parameters? > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 2010-12-05, at 8:34 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > The runtime error which I mentioned earlier was because Java couldn't > > find the liblouisutdml bindings. They are in a subdirectory of the > > brailleblaster directory called bin/lib I understand that I have to set > > the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH However, I want to set it to a > > path relative to the brailleblaster directory, not to an absolute path. > > Just setting it to bin/lib and running the brailleblaster jar from the > > brailleblaster directory doesn't work. > > > > This will go into a shell script called brailleblaster.sh which will run > > the app on Linux and the Mac and can be easily made into a .bat file for > > Windows. > > > > John > > > > -- > > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > > Madison, Wisconsin USA > > Developing software for people with disabilities > > > > > > Alex Jurgensen, > VoiceOver Trainer, > ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org > -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.godtouches.org Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA