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Subject: Re: Environment Variables
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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@bost.de>
Date: 11 Oct 2000 15:03:30 +0200
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>>>>> "LB" == Luca Botti <luca.botti@jumpystaff.it> writes:

 LB> Is there any way to have ant "see" envirnoment vars and set
 LB> properties accordingly?

Ant can't because Java can't. You'll need to write your own wrapper
script that takes all environment variables and calls Ant with
-DENVVAR=${ENVAR} or -DENVVAR=%ENVVAR%.

Stefan