diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index febe07899..e43a57979 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Other changes:
 * Tighten security by sending storepass and keypass to signjar
   via the input stream of the forked process.
 
+* New task <schemavalidate> extends <xmlvalidate> with extra support
+  for XML Schema (XSD) files.
+
+* <fixcrlf> supports a file attribute for easy fixup of a single file.
+
 Changes from Ant 1.6.2 to current Ant 1.6 CVS version
 =====================================================
 
@@ -222,9 +227,6 @@ Other changes:
 
 * Pathconvert no longer requires that one of (targetos|pathsep|dirsep)
   be set; platform defaults are used when this is the case.
-  
-* New task <schemavalidate> extends <xmlvalidate> with extra support
-  for XML Schema (XSD) files. 
 
 Fixed bugs:
 -----------
diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html
index afbf9c3ce..78ff157dd 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTasks/fixcrlf.html
@@ -51,8 +51,14 @@ supports all attributes of <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code>
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">srcDir</td>
     <td valign="top">Where to find the files to be fixed up.</td>
-    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
+    <td valign="top" align="center">Either file or srcDir</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td valign="top">file</td>
+    <td valign="top">Name of a single file to fix. Since Ant1.7</td>
+    <td valign="top" align="center">Either file or srcDir</td>
+  </tr>
+
   <tr>
     <td valign="top">destDir</td>
     <td valign="top">Where to place the corrected files.  Defaults to
diff --git a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/build.xml b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/build.xml
index cdca01d55..823e58557 100644
--- a/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/build.xml
+++ b/src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/build.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
-<project default="cleanup" basedir=".">
+<project name="fixcrlf" default="cleanup" basedir=".">
   <target name="init">
     <mkdir dir="result" />
   </target>
@@ -162,4 +162,12 @@
     <fixcrlf srcdir="." destdir="result" includes="input/Junk1.java"/>
   </target>
 
+  <target name="testFixFile" depends="init">
+    <fixcrlf file="input/longlines.crlf" destdir="result" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="testFixFileExclusive" depends="init">
+    <fixcrlf file="input/longlines.crlf" srcdir="input" destdir="result"/>
+  </target>
+
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
index c25dbc722..eaeb77adf 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
@@ -121,11 +121,13 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
 
     private File srcDir;
     private File destDir = null;
+    private File file;
 
     /**
      * Encoding to assume for the files
      */
     private String encoding = null;
+    public static final String ERROR_FILE_AND_SRCDIR = "srcdir and file are mutually exclusive";
 
     /**
      * Defaults the properties based on the system type.
@@ -172,6 +174,14 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
         this.javafiles = javafiles;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * set a single file to convert
+     * @since Ant1.7
+     * @param file
+     */
+    public void setFile(File file) {
+        this.file = file;
+    }
 
     /**
      * Specify how EndOfLine characters are to be handled.
@@ -314,6 +324,15 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
     public void execute() throws BuildException {
         // first off, make sure that we've got a srcdir and destdir
 
+        if(file!=null) {
+            if(srcDir!=null) {
+                throw new BuildException(ERROR_FILE_AND_SRCDIR);
+            }
+            //patch file into the fileset
+            fileset.setFile(file);
+            //set our parent dir
+            srcDir=file.getParentFile();
+        }
         if (srcDir == null) {
             throw new BuildException("srcdir attribute must be set!");
         }
@@ -745,7 +764,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
     }
 
 
-    class OneLiner implements Enumeration {
+    protected class OneLiner implements Enumeration {
 
         private int state = javafiles ? LOOKING : NOTJAVA;
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCrLfTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCrLfTest.java
index 16ad3dfd3..cc110918d 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCrLfTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCrLfTest.java
@@ -175,6 +175,18 @@ public class FixCrLfTest extends BuildFileTest {
                            new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/result/fixlastfalse.lf"));
     }
 
+    public void testFixFile() throws Exception {
+        executeTarget("testFixFile");
+        File created= new File(System.getProperty("root"),
+            "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/fixcrlf/result/longlines.crlf");
+        assertTrue("didnt create output file",created.exists());
+    }
+
+    public void testFixFileExclusive() throws Exception {
+        expectBuildExceptionContaining("testFixFileExclusive",
+                FixCRLF.ERROR_FILE_AND_SRCDIR, FixCRLF.ERROR_FILE_AND_SRCDIR);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Bugzilla Report 20840
      *