Subclipse, eclipse, svn, “Error while reading log messages from file”

I got this error when in Flex Builder / Eclipse and using SVN.
I had done a commit, then SVN thought it needed to commit the base directory which had no revisions.  I committed it, then came back and added log comment later on.  When I went to view the revision tree, SVN gave the message [...]

Ant Build from Eclipse - File Not Found Error

You might be thinking that getting Ant errors of a file not found on Windows is due to spaces in file names.
Actually, Ant and Eclipse are probably handling spaces on Windows fine, it’s the backslashes on Windows directories that are causing the problems.
Because Eclipse and Ant are Sun Java based, backslashes are interpreted as string [...]