See the 'dir' attribute in the "Parameters" table of the Ant task
description in the doc.

Diane

--- Steve Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not so much that I want to read a file (although, eventually, a
> file gets read), but my test is testing a method that takes a File
> object as a parameter.  And this file is located on a relative path to
> the where the script is run.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KC Baltz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Re: ant-Junit question
> 
> 
> Why do your tests need to know the current directory?  If it's because
> you 
> want to read in a file, try using Class.getResource() to read it from a 
> location on the classpath.
> 
> K.C.
> 
> At 12:19 PM 1/25/02, you wrote:
> >I have a build.xml file that includes junit targets.  These targets
> >produce tests that succeed when the build.xml file is run
> >from the the directory in which build.xml is located.  However, when I
> >run the same build.xml through an ant task from another
> >build.xml in another directory, the tests fail.  The tests fail because
> >they think the current directory is the directory from which ant was
> >initially launched.  How can I modify my <ant> task in the calling file
> >to let it know that the current directory should be that of the
> launched
> >file?
> >
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