1. Pretty much right. There are only two good reasons I've heard for MSI
still requiring short names, Novell file shares and that's just the way
the Windows Installer works. I've found inertia has a huge play in
Windows Installer decisions. The third reason I've heard is that the
user can force
Quinton Tormanen wrote:
> 1. Why does MSI still require short names to be provided? It is my
> understanding that all OSes since Windows 95 have supported them.
It's a legacy thing that's just been carried on. In a discussion a while back
someone managed to
come up with a system that could feas
I feel like this subject has surely been discussed into the ground on
this forum, but I can't find anything with my searches. I found a few
blogs
(http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/02/auto-generation-of-short-file-an
d.html, for one) that related to it, but didn't quite answer my
question. Perhap
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