diff --git a/docs/cvs.html b/docs/cvs.html
index 946832298..60dcf32f7 100644
--- a/docs/cvs.html
+++ b/docs/cvs.html
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic checkout [module-name]</p
       </ul>
                                 <p>If you are not familiar with CVS, <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">Jakarta's
       CVS page</a> may hold many helpful hints.</p>
+                                <p>Nightly snapshots of the CVS tree are available at <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/jakarta-ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/jakarta-ant/</a>.</p>
                 
   
                     </div>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Jar.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Jar.java
index 1e1049e2e..c72949bb9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Jar.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Jar.java
@@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ public class Jar extends Zip {
             initZipOutputStream(zOut);
             finalizeZipOutputStream(zOut);
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
-            throw new BuildException("Could not create almost empty JAR archive "
-                                     + "(" + ioe.getMessage() + ")", ioe,
+            throw new BuildException("Could not create almost empty JAR archive"
+                                     + " (" + ioe.getMessage() + ")", ioe,
                                      getLocation());
         } finally {
             // Close the output stream.
diff --git a/xdocs/cvs.xml b/xdocs/cvs.xml
index 0f7d6fc54..b21b079c8 100644
--- a/xdocs/cvs.xml
+++ b/xdocs/cvs.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic checkout [module-name]</s
       <p>If you are not familiar with CVS, <a
       href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html">Jakarta's
       CVS page</a> may hold many helpful hints.</p>
+
+      <p>Nightly snapshots of the CVS tree are available at <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/jakarta-ant/">http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/jakarta-ant/</a>.</p>
   </section>
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