Bug 85198 - Can't start eclipse.exe in a directory with an '!' (exclamation mark) in it
Summary: Can't start eclipse.exe in a directory with an '!' (exclamation mark) in it
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 3109
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Runtime (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 trivial (vote)
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Assignee: platform-runtime-inbox CLA
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Reported: 2005-02-14 17:20 EST by motardio CLA
Modified: 2005-02-14 18:41 EST (History)
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Description motardio CLA 2005-02-14 17:20:51 EST 
platform:  Windows 2003, sun jre1.5.0_01

When eclipse.exe is placed in a directory such as "c:/!/dev/eclipse/", it shows 
the splash screen and then a message dialog with the 
message, "ECLIPSE_STARTUP_ERROR_CHECK_LOG".

(what log?)

Moving eclipse/ to somewhere outside of the directory with '!' (e.g. 
c:/eclipse/) resolves the issue immediately and Eclipse starts up fine 
(surprisingly fast in fact compared to the other Java software I've worked with 
anywhere near this level of complexity!).
Comment 1 Rafael Chaves CLA 2005-02-14 18:41:17 EST 
Exclamation marks are used in nested jar URLs. This is known issue, described in
the readme (section 3.1.1):

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3_0_1.html



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3109 ***