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@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
           <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">createfile</font>
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-          <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Whether the temp file should be created by this task.<strong>Since Ant 1.8</strong></font>
+          <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">Whether the temp file should be created by this task; default <em>false</em>.<strong>Since Ant 1.8</strong></font>
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           <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">boolean</font>