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pull in Antoine's comments on cygwin from 20144 as they were too profound to not add to the docs :)

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Note also this is my first commit from my new Linux box and SmartCVS, so it may not work first time.


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@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ <h2>Unix</h2>
if you have downloaded this as a tar file.
</li>
<li> Ant does not preserve file permissions when a file is copied, moved or
archived. Use <tt>&lt;chmod&gt;</tt> to set permissions, and when creating a
archived, because Java does not let it read or write the permissions.
Use <tt>&lt;chmod&gt;</tt> to set permissions, and when creating a
tar archive, use the <tt>mode</tt> attribute of <tt>&lt;tarfileset&gt;</tt>
to set the permissions in the tar file.
to set the permissions in the tar file, or &lt;apply&gt; the real tar program.
</li>
<li> Ant is not symbolic link aware in moves, deletes and when recursing down a tree
of directories to build up a list of files. Unexpected things can happen.
@ -40,6 +41,31 @@ <h2>Microsoft Windows</h2>
There is nothing we can do about this short of spawning a program to kill
the shell before deleting directories.
<h2>Cygwin</h2>
Cygwin is not really an operating system; rather it is an application suite
running under Windows and providing some UNIX like functionality. AFAIK, Sun did
not create any specific Java Development Kit or Java Runtime Environment for
cygwin. See this link :
<a href="http://www.inonit.com/cygwin/faq/">http://www.inonit.com/cygwin/faq/</a> .
Only Windows path
names are supported by JDK and JRE tools under Windows or cygwin. Relative path
names such as "src/org/apache/tools" are supported, but Java tools do not
understand /cygdrive/c to mean c:\.
<p>
The utility cygpath (used industrially in the ant script to support cygwin) can
convert cygwin path names to Windows.
You can use the <exec/> task in ant to convert cygwin paths to Windows path, for
instance like that :
<pre>
&lt;property name=&quot;some.cygwin.path&quot; value=&quot;/cygdrive/h/somepath&quot;/&gt;
&lt;exec executable=&quot;cygpath&quot; outputproperty=&quot;windows.pathname&quot;&gt;
&lt;arg value=&quot;--windows&quot;/&gt;
&lt;arg value=&quot;${some.cygwin.path}&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/exec&gt;
&lt;echo message=&quot;${windows.pathname}&quot;/&gt;
</pre>
<h2>Apple MacOS X</h2>
MacOS X is the first of the Apple platforms that Ant supports completely;