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BUG: PATH Update Flakey in WIN95/98

Windows Installer (even 2.0+) has a bug in updating "autoexec.bat" in Windows 95, 98 (and probably ME), you should ensure the value either contains no spaces (hard) or is surrounded by double quotes. I have seen this happen where "autoexec.bat contains a line such as "@PATH=blah..." (invalid syntax if the line contains spaces).

An example follows: 

<$Component "ENVIRONMENT_AND_REGISTRY" Create="Y" Directory_="INSTALLDIR">
   <$Path '"[INSTALLDIR]"'>
<$/Component>

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