On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:32 -0700, Blair wrote:
Blair,
the last time I heard this question mentioned from some of the developers,
maybe Rob, the answer always was that the only real reason for short names was
that some old Novel servers couldn't cope with long names and removing this
would
That and if you try to use the install an MSI over HTTP (which is such a
pain to deal with it isn't worth it) the Windows Installer will use short
names as well. Oh, and the user can technically speaking always pass in the
SHORTFILENAMES Property and force your MSI to use short filenames.
I don't
Mensching r...@robmensching.com
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
To: d...@tramontana.co.hu, General discussion for Windows Installer XML
toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:39 AM
That and if you try to use the
install
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
I think the point is all of this is pointless and yes, quite
useless to the vast majority of the world.
Case in point.. Rename SomeDotNetAssembly.dll to
SomeDo~1.dll or some other hashed
.
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From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
I think
Thanks Chad. In spite of calling it a shortcut, I know what a SFN is since
working on PCs from the very first version of DOS 1.0, but am wondering why
I might want to have anything meaningful for a short name nowadays. Since
these names would be for my program files I'd really rather not any
There are still filesystems that Windows can use that are short name only.
Brant Gurganus
http://gurganus.name/brant
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Dave Kolb d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com wrote:
Thanks Chad. In spite of calling it a shortcut, I know what a SFN is since
working on PCs from
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
There are still filesystems that Windows can use that are short name only.
Brant Gurganus
http://gurganus.name/brant
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
There are still filesystems that Windows can use that are short name only.
Brant Gurganus
http://gurganus.name/brant
Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore?
Long file names can be turned off on NTFS so you have to worry about
it there as well. See
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/01/27/362049.aspx
Brant Gurganus
http://gurganus.name/brant
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