place. The tar-task used another constructor. Simply copied the verification to the other constructor to do the check there also. Now throws a RuntimeException. Submitted By: "Nico Seessle" <Nico.Seessle@epost.de> git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@268494 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master