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Log:
minor doc updates
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--- exec.html 28 Jan 2005 16:11:40 -0000 1.46
+++ exec.html 7 Feb 2005 23:42:21 -0000 1.47
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-html>
+<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">searchpath</td>
- <td valign="top">When this attribute is true nested, then
+ <td valign="top">When this attribute is true, then
system path environment variables will
be searched when resolving the location
of the executable. <em>since Ant 1.6.3</em></td>
@@ -312,10 +312,11 @@
otherwise do nothing.
<p>
What do those error codes mean? Well, they are OS dependent. On Windows
-boxes you have to look in include\error.h in your windows compiler or wine
files;
-error code 2 means 'no such program', which usually means it is not on the
path.
-Any time you see such an error from any ant task, it is usually not an ant
bug,
-but some configuration problem on your machine.
+boxes you have to look at
+<a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/system_error_codes__0-499_.asp";>
+the documentation</a>; error code 2 means 'no such program', which usually
means
+it is not on the path. Any time you see such an error from any Ant task, it
is
+usually not an Ant bug, but some configuration problem on your machine.
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
@@ -335,7 +336,7 @@
system command.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
-<property name="browser" location="C:/Programme/Internet
Explorer/iexplore.exe"/>
+<property name="browser" location="C:/Program Files/Internet
Explorer/iexplore.exe"/>
<property name="file" location="ant/docs/manual/index.html"/>
<exec executable="${browser}" spawn="true">
@@ -343,7 +344,7 @@
</exec>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>Starts the <i>${browser}</i> with the specified <i>${file}</i> and end the
-ant process. The browser will let be open.</p>
+Ant process. The browser will remain.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
<exec executable="cat">
@@ -367,14 +368,9 @@
a file and a property, both named "redirector.err".
-<p><b>Note:</b> Although it may work for you to specify arguments using
-a simple arg-element and separate them by spaces it may fail if you switch to
-a newer version of the JDK. JDK < 1.2 will pass these as separate
arguments
-to the program you are calling, JDK >= 1.2 will pass them as a single
-argument and cause most calls to fail.</p>
-<p><b>Note2:</b> If you are using Ant on Windows and a new DOS-Window pops up
-for every command which is executed this may be a problem of the JDK you are
using.
-This problem may occur with all JDK's < 1.2.</p>
+<p><b>Note:</b> do not try to specify arguments using
+a simple arg-element and separate them by spaces. This results in
+only a single argument containing the entire string.</p>
<p>
<b>Timeouts: </b> If a timeout is specified, when it is reached the
sub process is killed and a message printed to the log. The return
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