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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:44:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Holt <holtdl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Set properties.
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--- Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:
> <target name="check">
>   <available file="${jar}" property="present "/>
>   <echo message="${jar} present: ${present}" />
> </target>

Except you probably don't really want that <echo> in this target, since it
would always print out, even if ${jar} isn't available, so you'd end up
with output that has an unresolved property:

    [echo] log4j.jar present: ${present}

Diane

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