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‎May 23, 2008
02:55 AM
What means .ism?
Hello 🙂
it is a simple question but i do not find an answer. I know that an ism-file is an InstallShield project file. Can somebody tell me how ism is written out? Or does it only means ism = installshield (project file)?
Thanks.
it is a simple question but i do not find an answer. I know that an ism-file is an InstallShield project file. Can somebody tell me how ism is written out? Or does it only means ism = installshield (project file)?
Thanks.
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‎May 23, 2008
08:59 AM
I don't think the letters "ism" mean anything; it's just "msi" (the Windows Installer package extension) spelled backward, and the initial "I" suggests "InstallShield"...
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‎May 24, 2008
01:14 PM
RobertDickau wrote:
I don't think the letters "ism" mean anything; it's just "msi" (the Windows Installer package extension) spelled backward, and the initial "I" suggests "InstallShield"...
🙂 I used to tell people that it stood for InstallShield MSI project, but then the same file extension is also used for InstallScript projects, so there went that theory.
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‎May 28, 2008
11:01 AM
ism is the extention for Installshield -as in the file that controls that particular Installshield project . Other than that – it’s a suffix that denotes a distinctive system of beliefs, myth, doctrine or theory that guides a social movement, institution, class or group.
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‎May 28, 2008
11:50 AM
This last point has been a source of bad jokes: see for example the help topics "ISWiProductConfigs Collection" and "ISWiRelease Object"...
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