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 <div align="center"> 
   <h1><img src="../artwork/ant_logo_large.gif" width="190" height="120"></h1>
   <h1>Apache Ant 1.5 Manual</h1>
-  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.5 of Apache Ant. If your version 
-    of ant (as verified with <tt>ant -version</tt>) is older or newer than this 
+  <p align="left">This is the manual for version 1.5 of 
+  <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Apache Ant</a>. 
+    If your version 
+    of Ant (as verified with <tt>ant -version</tt>) is older or newer than this 
     version then this is not the correct manual set. Please use the documentation 
-    appropriate to your current version. </p>
+    appropriate to your current version. Also, if you are using a version
+    older than the most recent release, we recommend an upgrade to fix bugs
+    as well as provide new functionality </p>
   <p>&nbsp;</p>
 </div>
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-
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 <p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2001-2002 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
 Reserved.</p>