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provide a magic property that overrides temp directory
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‎WHATSNEW‎

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* rmic has been removed from Java 15. The task will now throw an
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exception if you try to use it while running Java 15 or newer.
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* a new property ant.tmpdir provides improved control over the
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location Ant uses to create temporary files
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Changes from Ant 1.9.13 TO Ant 1.9.14
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‎manual/Tasks/cab.html‎

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(<code>dir</code> becomes <code>basedir</code>) as well as the nested
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<code>&lt;include&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;exclude&gt;</code> and
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<code>&lt;patternset&gt;</code> elements.</p>
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<p>On non-Unix platforms this task writes the list of files to archive
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to the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary directory</a>.</p>
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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‎manual/Tasks/cvstagdiff.html‎

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for certain other cvs clients - like CVSNT for example - and some
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operation may fail when using such an incompatible client.
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</p>
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<p>This task captures the output of the CVS command in a file inside of
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the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary directory</a>.</p>
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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‎manual/Tasks/ejb.html‎

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as well as the iplanet element (for example, suffix). Refer to the appropriate
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documentation for more details.</p>
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<p>This task creates a directory for scratch data inside of
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the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary directory</a>.</p>
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<h3> Parameters:</h3>
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‎manual/Tasks/exec.html‎

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<code>&lt;arg&gt;</code> elements is executed exactly as specified
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inside a temporary DCL script. This has some implications:
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<ul>
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<li>the DCL script will be created inside
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the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary directory</a>.</li>
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<li>paths have to be written in VMS style</li>
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‎manual/Tasks/fixcrlf.html‎

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The output file is only written if it is a new file, or if it
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differs from the existing file. This prevents spurious
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by this task.
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by this task. In order to assess whether a file has changed, this
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task will create a pre-processed version of the source file inside of
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the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary directory</a>.
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‎manual/Tasks/ftp.html‎

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<td valign="top">set to <code>"true"</code>
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to make ant calculate the time difference between client and server.<br>
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<em>requires write access in the remote directory</em><br>
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Since ant 1.6<br/>
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If this is set to <code>true</code> then Ant will create an empty
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file inside of the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary
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directory</a> and transfer it to the remote server - deleting it on
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both sides once the difference has been determined.
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(<code>yes</code> | <code>no</code>). Default is no.</td>
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(<code>yes</code> | <code>no</code>). Default is no.<br/>
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‎manual/Tasks/replaceregexp.html‎

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have been regenerated by this task. In order to assess whether a file
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source file inside of the <a href="../running.html#tmpdir">temporary
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‎manual/Types/selectors.html‎

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