class PropTest { static void displayProperty(String name) { String prop = System.getProperty(name); System.out.println(name + ": " + "\"" + prop + "\""); } public static void main(String[] args) { displayProperty("file.separator"); displayProperty("path.separator"); displayProperty("user.name"); displayProperty("user.home"); displayProperty("user.dir"); displayProperty("line.separator"); // Display bytes of line.separator: String lineSep = System.getProperty("line.separator"); byte[] bytes = lineSep.getBytes(); for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; ++i) System.out.print(bytes[i] + " "); System.out.println(); } } /* Output: file.separator: "\" path.separator: ";" user.name: "Administrator" user.home: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator" user.dir: "C:\CUJ" line.separator: " " 13 10 */ End of Listing