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Description

The cab task creates Microsoft cab archive files. It is invoked similar to the jar or zip tasks. This task will work on Windows using the external cabarc tool (provided by Microsoft) which must be located in your executable path.

To use this task on other platforms you need to download and compile libcabinet from http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/ barbacha/cabinet_library/.

See the section on directory based tasks, on how the inclusion/exclusion of files works, and how to write patterns.

This task forms an implicit FileSet and supports all attributes of <fileset> (dir becomes basedir) as well as the nested <include>, <exclude> and <patternset> elements.



Andrew Marlow 2003-07-08