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 <h1>Platform Issues</h1>


 <h2>Unix</h2>

 <ul>
 <li> You should use a GNU version of <tt>tar</tt> to untar the ant source tree,
 if you have downloaded this as a tar file.
 </li>
 <li> Ant does not preserve file permissions when a file is copied, moved or
 archived. Use <tt>&lt;chmod&gt;</tt> to set permissions, and when creating a
 tar archive, use the <tt>mode</tt> attribute of <tt>&lt;tarfileset&gt;</tt>
 to set the permissions in the tar file.
 </li>
 <li> Ant is not symbolic link aware in moves, deletes and when recursing down a tree
 of directories to build up a list of files. Unexpected things can happen.
 </ul>

 <h2>Microsoft Windows</h2>

 Windows 9x (win95, win98, win98SE and winME) has a batch file system which
 does not work fully with long file names, so we recommend that ant and the JDK
 are installed into directories without spaces, and with 8.3 filenames.
 The Perl and Python launcher scripts do not suffer from this limitation.

 <p>
 All versions of windows are usually case insensitive, although mounted
 file systems (Unix drives, Clearcase views) can be case sensitive underneath,
 confusing patternsets.

 <p>
 Ant can often not delete a directory which is open in an Explorer window.
 There is nothing we can do about this short of spawning a program to kill
 the shell before deleting directories.

 <h2>Apple MacOS X</h2>

 MacOS X is the first of the Apple platforms that Ant supports completely;
 it is treated like any other Unix.

 <h2>Novell Netware</h2>

 <h2>Other platforms</h2>
 Support for other platforms is not guaranteed to be complete, as certain
 techniques to hide platform details from build files need to be written and
 tested on every particular platform. Contributions in this area are welcome.

 <hr>
 <p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2002 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>
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	<html>

	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
	<title>Platform Issues</title>
	</head>

	<h1>Platform Issues</h1>


	<h2>Unix</h2>

	<ul>
	<li> You should use a GNU version of <tt>tar</tt> to untar the ant source tree,
	if you have downloaded this as a tar file.
	</li>
	<li> Ant does not preserve file permissions when a file is copied, moved or
	archived. Use <tt><chmod></tt> to set permissions, and when creating a
	tar archive, use the <tt>mode</tt> attribute of <tt><tarfileset></tt>
	to set the permissions in the tar file.
	</li>
	<li> Ant is not symbolic link aware in moves, deletes and when recursing down a tree
	of directories to build up a list of files. Unexpected things can happen.
	</ul>

	<h2>Microsoft Windows</h2>

	Windows 9x (win95, win98, win98SE and winME) has a batch file system which
	does not work fully with long file names, so we recommend that ant and the JDK
	are installed into directories without spaces, and with 8.3 filenames.
	The Perl and Python launcher scripts do not suffer from this limitation.

	<p>
	All versions of windows are usually case insensitive, although mounted
	file systems (Unix drives, Clearcase views) can be case sensitive underneath,
	confusing patternsets.

	<p>
	Ant can often not delete a directory which is open in an Explorer window.
	There is nothing we can do about this short of spawning a program to kill
	the shell before deleting directories.

	<h2>Apple MacOS X</h2>

	MacOS X is the first of the Apple platforms that Ant supports completely;
	it is treated like any other Unix.

	<h2>Novell Netware</h2>

	<h2>Other platforms</h2>
	Support for other platforms is not guaranteed to be complete, as certain
	techniques to hide platform details from build files need to be written and
	tested on every particular platform. Contributions in this area are welcome.

	<hr>
	<p align="center">Copyright © 2002 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
	Reserved.</p>
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