Hey Palbinder,

Which version of heat.exe are you using? As long as you aren't using -suid
you should be ok.

Thanks,

Brian Rogers
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:10 AM, <samuel.feren...@barclayscapital.com>wrote:

> Hi Palbinder, (group),
>
> thanks for your response.
>
> As per the link you said, an ID of "1234" is *not* acceptable ("every
> identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore"), which is why
> I think heat does some magic to avoid that ID for a directory called "1234".
>
> It seems that in one case heat generates the ID "Directory1234" and in
> another "_1234", and I'm wondering if this is something that one can control
> in heat (or if, perhaps, this is due to different versions of heat...)
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com]
> Sent: 11 February 2011 17:32
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] heat: the ID of a directory with numeric name
>
> Directory ID's can be anything you like as long as they're valid
> identifiers (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa369212.aspx)
> since they go directly into the Directory table. They don't need to
> reflect the actual name of the directory.
>
> Just rename it after harvesting.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: samuel.feren...@barclayscapital.com
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> Sent: 11 February 2011 14:05
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> Subject: [WiX-users] heat: the ID of a directory with numeric name
>
> Hi,
>
> I am harvesting (heat dir) a directory structure like this:
>
> foo
> + bar
>   + 1234
>      + a.a
>      + b.b
>
> The output is as follows:
>
>        <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
>            <Directory Id="foo" Name="foo">
>                <Directory Id="bar" Name="bar">
>                    <Directory Id="_1234" Name="1234">
>
> I am wondering about the Id "_1234". I suppose the Id cannot be purely
> numeric, so the underscore is prepended.
>
> However, I'm trying to mimic another MSI package, and that one has the
> Id of "Directory1234":
>
>        <DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
>            <Directory Id="foo" Name="foo">
>                <Directory Id="bar" Name="bar">
>                    <Directory Id="Directory1234" Name="1234">
>
> How can that be achieved?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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