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 "legacy" program showed anything meaningful to the user though I can't even think of what such a program would even be. Is there anything in XP forward in the OS itself that is important in practice that would attempt to show a short name to the user? I can't think of anything so am inclined to not specify any short names that would clutter up my .wxs files. Thanks, Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:44 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are shortcut names even useful anymore? An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is a filename convention used by old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. It is also used in modern Microsoft operating systems as an alternate filename to the long filename for compatibility with legacy programs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
