Short file name problem

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bertil.hedenstrom1.552491002065735E12 asked a question.

January 15, 2004 at 11:30 AM

Short file name problem

Hi,

I have repackaged my application with IS Repackager.

One key in an .ini file points to "Program Files". The key appears in the inc file like this:

MyKey=_Short(%ProgramFilesFolder%\MyApp)

When I convert to an .ism file and build my MSI, the key value is not resolved to a short file name. It looks like

MyKey=_Short(%ProgramFilesFolder%\MyApp)

instead of

MyKey=C:\Progra~1\MyApp

I found no info about the _Short() command, and wonder how to make it work.

Can anyone help ?

Thanks

AdminStudio

TsungH
23 years ago
There is an issue with converting a folder path from a long path name to short path name. You can write a VBScript custom action to do that at runtime. Below is a quick sample.set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' read ProgramFilesFolder property

set fo = FSO.GetFolder(Property("ProgramFilesFolder"))

' convert to short path name from long path name

' assign the short path name to a property

Property("SP_PROGRAMFILESFOLDER") = fo.ShortPath

set fo = nothing

set FSO = nothingFor more information, please refer to FileSystemObject on MSDN .
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davidl1.5524908141746277E12
23 years ago
I have come across this. It only happened for a few keys so I changed them manually by getting the short file name by running the dir command from dos with the /x switch.

Otherwise you could set the SHORTFILENAMES property to 1. This is a brick in the face approach that would use short filenames for everything.
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bertil.hedenstrom1.552491002065735E12
23 years ago
Thanks for your replies.

I think I will choose the first solution and store the SP name in a property.
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