conor 2003/02/05 01:33:20
Modified: docs/manual/CoreTasks property.html
Log:
Some innocuous wording for the definition of user.home
PR: 14167
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builds using the following:</p>
<pre> <property
file="${user.home}/.ant-global.properties"/></pre>
<p>since the "user.home" property is defined by the Java virtual
machine
-to be your home directory. This technique is more appropriate for Unix than
-Windows since the notion of a home directory doesn't exist on Windows. On
the
-JVM that I tested, the home directory on Windows is "C:\".
Different JVM
-implementations may use other values for the home directory on Windows.</p>
+to be your home directory. Where the "user.home" property
resolves to in
+the file system depends on the operating system version and the JVM
implementation.
+On Unix based systems, this will map to the user's home directory. On modern
Windows
+variants, this will most likely resolve to the user's directory in the
"Documents
+and Settings" folder. Older windows variants such as Windows 98/ME are
less
+predictable, as are other operating system/JVM combinations.</p>
<pre>
<property environment="env"/>