Which version of Ant?
Have you edited the build.xml file with a vs.net XML editor?
Run ant with a -debug flag to see if you get more info about the exception.
Conor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2001 1:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: help with first time setup
>
>
> I'm trying to setup to setup this tomcat server for the first time but i
> keep getting BUILD FAILED...
>
> it says: D:\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat-4.0\build.xml:7: Malformed
> \uxxxx encoding.
>
> i swapped all the variables ${ whatever } with directories...
>
> onyl thing i can think of is this file has UNIX literals with forward
> slashes instead of backslash- does that matter?
>
> thanks for any help!
>
>
