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Ant: The Definitive Guide

Errata for Ant: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xii
IN PRINT: Last paragraph, 2nd and 3rd sentences

"If a tool out there doesnt do what you need it to do, then look around for one
that will. If it doesnt exist, then create it."

NOW READS:
"If a tool out there doesn't do what you need it to do, then look around for one
that will. If it doesn't exist, then create it."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2004
Printed
Page 26
3rd paragraph (starts with "An upside")

"An upside of properties, as opposed to DataTypes, is that their values are type
agnostic (i.e., they're always strings."

NOW READS:
"An upside of properties, as opposed to DataTypes, is that their values are type
agnostic (i.e., they're always strings)."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2004
Printed
Page 118
Middle of page, command line beginning with "run"

run at 00:01 every day 30 0 * * * $HOME/work/dobuild.sh

should be:

# Run at 00:01 every day
1 0 * * * $HOME/work/dobuild.sh

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 148
Example Usage for gzip

In the Example Usage for gzip, there should be a "zipfile" attribute instead of "dest" as of version 1.5 of
Ant..

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 192
1st Paragraph, last sentence

The link to the libcabinet library (a non-Windows CAB singing tool) is a dead link.
Information on the library can be found at http://www.freshports.org/archivers/libcabinet/
and can be downloaded from the mirror ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.

The last sentence of the paragraph HAS BEEN CHANGED to reflect these new reference links.

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2004