Try this...

<exec executable="cmd.exe" dir="C:/Programme/Apache Software
Foundation/Tomcat 5.0/bin" os="Windows XP" failonerror="true">
        <arg line="/c startup.bat"/>
</exec>

Cheers, rk~

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Neu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:30 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Fwd: Problem with exec Windows XP

Hello Alexey,

could you just post the correct command ? This would help a lot.

Regards,

Peter

> To launch batch files you need to execute cmd.exe with correct 
> parameters ("/c" and "startup.bat"). You cannot execute the batch 
> files themselves.
>
> - Alexey.
>
> Peter Neu wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm having difficulties using <exec> with Windows XP. When I'm trying
>> to run an Ant Script with a command like this :
>>
>> <exec dir="C:/Programme/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.0/bin" 
>> executable="startup.bat"
>>            os="WindowsXP">
>>
>>       </exec>
>>
>> simply nothing happens. I don't even get a warning. Can anybody tell 
>> me what
>> I did wrong ?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
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