The following reduced test case shows the problem. I've tested this with Ant
1.7.1 and JDK 1.4.2_19
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<project name="delete-UNC-test">
<property name="out.parent.dir"
value="\\my-unc-path-that-does-not-exist\tmp"/>
<delete dir="${out.parent.dir}" verbose="true"/>
</project>
=======================Can anyone help me with this? -- "A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
