Yes, you are right. I copied and pasted the command from an email and since
the email was HTML based, it must have translated the character into something
besides ASCII 45. If I manually typed the command it worked properly. Thanks
for the quick response.
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Shawn Castrianni
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> From: Shawn Castrianni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:23 PM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: garbage characters when specifying properties on the ANT
> command line
>
> This only happens to a few machines and don't know what causes it:
>
> executing: build targe
This only happens to a few machines and don't know what causes it:
executing: build target -Dverbose=true
results in an error message:
Target "ûDverbose" does not exist in the project "MyProject".
You can see that the minus sign is being changed to a garbage character and,
therefore, being