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Jay Glanville <dickon@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> Does ant already have platform-specific code?  I've looked through
> the code and couldn't find a centralized and consistent way of it
> being done.

Not really, a single point. Execute holds several platform specific
implementations for executing an external program in a specified
directory - as well as platform specific code to obtain the current
environment.

Stefan