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From: Conor MacNeill <conor@cortexebusiness.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Getting input
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:12:09 +1100
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 03:03 pm, Conor MacNeill wrote:
>
> If input is not
> provided in this form and a task requests input it will be sent eventually
> to the System.in stream. 

Just to update - this is true for in-VM Java tasks only. External tasks such 
as <exec> and forked <java> can only get input from a file or property.

-- 
Conor MacNeill
Blog: http://codefeed.com/blog/