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From: Barrie Treloar <Barrie.Treloar@camtech.com.au>
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On 9 Aug 2000, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> If I happen to have a script /tmp/ls.sh, antRun will invoke this
> script instead of /usr/bin/ls for
> 
> <exec dir="/tmp" executable="ls" />
> 
> which is not what I'd expect - quite the opposite, there is a reason I
> don't have . in my PATH.
> 
> Any objections against dropping this behavior?

+1 for me.  Exec should be using the path setting.

Barrie
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