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> Am I just looking in the wrong place, or is there no
> way to read or capture the value of an operating
> system environment variable from within an ant build
> file. For example. I would like to use the fop task,
> but in order to do so I must create a property named
> "fop.dir" and  enter the path to my fop .jar files.
> Since I already have an FOP_HOME environment
> variable, I'd like to extract the value of that from
> the OS and place it "value" attribute of the
> aforementioned property element.

Look at the property task:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html

Specifically, the environment attribute.

HTH,
Matt



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