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 <h2>Novell Netware</h2>
 
+<p>To give the same level of sophisticated control as Ant's startup scripts on other platforms, it was decided to make the main ant startup on NetWare be via a Perl Script, "runant.pl".  This is found in the bin directory (for instance - bootstrap\bin or dist\bin).</p>
+
+<p>One important item of note is that you need to set up the following to run ant:</p>
+<ul><li><code>CLASSPATH</code> - put ant.jar, crimson.jar, optional.jar, and any other needed jars on the system classpath.</li>
+   <li><code>ANT_OPTS</code> - On NetWare, <code>ANT_OPTS</code> needs to include a parameter of the form, <nobr>"-envCWD=<code>ANT_HOME</code>"</nobr>, with <code>ANT_HOME</code> being the fully expanded location of Ant, <b>not</b> an environment variable.  This is due to the fact that the NetWare System Console has no notion of a current working directory.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>It is suggested that you create up an ant.ncf that sets up these parameters, and calls <code>perl ANT_HOME/dist/bin/runant.pl</code></p>
+<p>The following is an example of such an NCF file(assuming ant is installed in <nobr>'sys:/jakarta-ant/'):</nobr></p>
+<code>
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset CLASSPATH=SYS:/jakarta-ant/bootstrap/lib/ant.jar<br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH;SYS:/jakarta-ant/lib/crimson.jar <br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH;SYS:/jakarta-ant/lib/optional/junit.jar <br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH;SYS:/jakarta-ant/bootstrap/lib/optional.jar <br />
+<br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;setenv ANT_OPTS=-envCWD=sys:/jakarta-ant <br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset ANT_OPTS=-envCWD=sys:/jakarta-ant <br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;setenv ANT_HOME=sys:/jakarta-ant/dist/lib <br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;envset ANT_HOME=sys:/jakarta-ant/dist/lib <br />
+<br />
+   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;perl sys:/jakarta-ant/dist/bin/runant.pl <br />
+</code>
+
+<p>Ant works on JVM version 1.3 or higher.  You may have some luck running it on JVM 1.2, but serious problems have been found running Ant on JVM 1.1.7B.  These problems are caused by JVM bugs that will not be fixed.</p>
+<p>JVM 1.3 is supported on Novell NetWare versions 5.1 and higher.</p>
+
+
 <h2>Other platforms</h2>
 Support for other platforms is not guaranteed to be complete, as certain 
 techniques to hide platform details from build files need to be written and