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Modified: docs/manual/OptionalTasks Tag: ANT_13_BRANCH cab.html Log: Documented usage on non-Windows platforms Revision Changes Path No revision No revision 1.1.2.2 +6 -4 jakarta-ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/Attic/cab.html Index: cab.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-ant/docs/manual/OptionalTasks/Attic/cab.html,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.1 retrieving revision 1.1.2.2 diff -u -r1.1.2.1 -r1.1.2.2 --- cab.html 2001/02/08 13:36:27 1.1.2.1 +++ cab.html 2001/02/10 23:26:47 1.1.2.2 @@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ <h3>Description</h3> <p>The cab task creates Microsoft cab archive files. It is invoked similar to the <a href="../CoreTasks/jar.html">jar</a> or <a href="../CoreTasks/zip.html">zip</a> tasks. -This task will only work on Windows, and will be silently ignored on -other platforms. You must have the Microsoft cabarc tool available in -your executable path.</p> +This task will work on Windows using the external cabarc tool (provided by Microsoft) +which must be located in your executable path.</p> +<p>To use this task on other platforms you need to download and compile libcabinet from +<a href="http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/";> +http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/</a>.</p> <p>See the section on <a href="../dirtasks.html#directorybasedtasks">directory based tasks</a>, on how the inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to write patterns.</p> @@ -114,7 +116,7 @@ verbose="yes" /> </pre></blockquote> -<p>cab all files in the htdocs/manual directory into a file called +<p>Cab all files in the htdocs/manual directory into a file called manual.cab in the ${dist} directory. Only html files under the directory api are archived, and files with the name todo.html are excluded. Output from the cabarc tool is displayed in the build
