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[Ant Wiki] Update of "AntOddities" by RyanStinnett

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Added comment about WinXP detection method

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  ''Marc Persuy''
  
+ A potential problem with this solution arises when Windows XP is not installed in the folder "WINDOWS".  While it usually resides there, it can be installed in a folder with any name.  Also, upgrading from Windows 2000 keeps the default installation directory that 2000 used, "WINNT".  Thus, the folder name alone can't guarantee that you're working with XP.
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+ ''Ryan Stinnett'' 
  
  == Implementing a PreProcessor ==
  On [http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28738 Bug-28738] is a question about preprocessor. You can do that without any external tasks (but I think the external tasks are more comfortable than this way :-)