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+<html>
+
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheets/style.css">
+<title>Diagnostics Task</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h2><a name="echo">Diagnostics</a></h2>
+<h3>Diagnostics</h3>
+<p>
+
+Runs Ant's <code>-diagnostics</code> code inside Ant itself. This is good for 
+debugging Ant's configuration under an IDE. 
+
+<h3>Examples</h3>
+
+<pre>
+    &lt;target name="diagnostics" description="diagnostics"&gt;
+        &lt;diagnostics/&gt;
+    &lt;/target&gt;
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+    Prints out the current diagnostics dump.
+</p>
+<hr>
+<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2006 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
+Reserved.</p>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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 <a href="CoreTasks/delete.html">Delete</a><br>
 <a href="CoreTasks/deltree.html"><i>Deltree</i></a><br>
 <a href="CoreTasks/dependset.html">Dependset</a><br>
+<a href="CoreTasks/diagnostics.html">Diagnostics</a><br>
 <a href="CoreTasks/dirname.html">Dirname</a><br>
 <a href="CoreTasks/ear.html">Ear</a><br>
 <a href="CoreTasks/echo.html">Echo</a><br>
