Just out of curiosity, what in regards to UNC is not kosher with the
command prompt?
If I share c:\bin as bin
and then do a dir \\spr121015\bin
it shows me the same info as dir c:\bin
It appears you can get some UNC support at least for the copy task
(which is what your question was about, no?)
<project name="test" default="copy" basedir=".">
<property name="unc" value="\\spr121015\bin" />
<!--
I work
-->
<target name="copy">
<copy file=".\build.xml" todir="${unc}" />
</target>
<!--
I also work
--> <target name="copyUnc">
<copy file=".\build.xml" todir="\\spr121015\bin" />
</target>
</project>
C:\>ant -version
Ant version 1.3 compiled on May 3 2001
/bill
-----Original Message-----
From: matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:07 PM
To: ant-user
Cc: matt; holtdl
Subject: FW: UNC paths
Diane,
Feel free to disregard the previous question. I was lacking on caffeine
intake, but the obvious workaround of mapping the network drive and
setting
that as the destdir for javadoc is good enough for now. Since one of
Ant's
best features is it's ability to allow you to work cross-platform, I
can't
imagine there being a lot of desire to add UNC path support.
Cheers,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UNC paths
Diane,
Thanks for the response.
I do have another question, however. I noticed that in an earlier post
you
had asked if Ant knows how to handle UNC path conventions, like a "\\"
in
paths:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=97241025908510&w=2
Did you ever get an answer on that?
I am trying to specify a UNC path for the destdir parameter in my
javadoc
task, but Ant appears to just be ignoring the first slash in the UNC
path
and bonking. I could write an ftp task to handle uploading the javadocs
to
the remote machine, but I am just being lazy and looking for an easy
way to
do it. Since cmd.exe (a.k.a. the good ol' DOS prompt window) does not
support UNC paths, it's no surprise that Ant doesn't either. Just
curious...
Cheers,
Matt
