gecko-dev/grendel/storage/Constants.java

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 * The Original Code is the Grendel mail/news client.
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 * Created: Terry Weissman <terry@netscape.com>,  2 Sep 1997.
 */

package grendel.storage;

import calypso.util.ByteBuf;

import java.io.File;

/**
  This class contains various constants that are used in various places that
  we don't want to recompute all over the place.  Mostly, these are system-
  dependent things. */

class Constants {
  /** The string used to separate lines in files on this system. */
  public final static String LINEBREAK =
  System.getProperties().getProperty("line.separator");

  /** The string used to separate lines in files on this system, stored as
    a ByteBuf. */
  public final static ByteBuf BYTEBUFLINEBREAK = new ByteBuf();
  static {
    BYTEBUFLINEBREAK.append(LINEBREAK);
  }
  private static boolean unix = false; // Need to use these silly three temp
  private static boolean mac = false;  // variables just so that I can declare
  private static boolean windows = false; // ISUNIX, etc, to be "final".
  static {
    String osname = System.getProperties().getProperty("os.name");
    if (osname.startsWith("Windows") ||
        osname.startsWith("Win32") ||
        osname.startsWith("Win16") ||
        osname.startsWith("16-bit Windows")) {
      windows = true;
    } else if (osname.startsWith("Mac OS")) {
      mac = true;
    } else {
      unix = true;
    }
  }

  /** Whether this is a Unix machine. */
  public final static boolean ISUNIX = unix;

  /** Whether this is a Macintosh machine. */
  public final static boolean ISMAC = mac;

  /** Whether this is a Windows machine. */
  public final static boolean ISWINDOWS = windows;


  /** File representing the user's home directory. */
  public final static File HOMEDIR =
  new File(System.getProperties().getProperty("user.home"));
};