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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:45:26+00:00

Of course the CLASSPATH form (non underscore version) is what people use now. But

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Of course the CLASSPATH form (non underscore version) is what people use now.

But I thought it used to also accept CLASS_PATH, maybe way back in the early 2000’s?

I’ve Google’d around but haven’t seen this answered. Google has trouble with this type of search, given the abundance of classpath, class and path in relation to Java. There are some older posts showing it as CLASS_PATH, and the one person who actually asked about the two versions didn’t get a real answer on that board.

I was also wondering if maybe it was specific to one old JVM variant, or maybe to an early DOS / Windows port?

Obviously not a high priority, but was curious if anybody else remembered this, and whether there was ever any “official” support (or withdrawal) for it.

Thanks, Mark

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  1. Editorial Team

    You got me curious too – I found one reference googling “CLASS_PATH Gosling”, the java faq in version 0.9.7. I can faintly remember (or I´m imagining) using it…
    http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/java/javafaq.html#xtocid558364

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