>>Hi all,
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>>In thread # 581909, Alexander Golovlev attempted to assist me with parsing out the Windows file description contained in an EXE file using the VFP internal AGETFILEVERSION() function.
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>>Unfortunately, it only seems to work about half the time. Many EXE files, which show a Windows description in Explorer/My Computer, can't evidently be seen by the function and it returns 0 with no information in the array.
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>>These files seem to have one common "thread" (pun intended) -- they have all been created with the Wise Installer (at least, the Wise Installation Wizard comes up when I run each one separately). I have *hundreds* of these files for which I need to grab the contained description.
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>>Anybody out there know another way to get this info besides AGETFILEVERSION?
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>>TIA,
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>You mean like "Microsoft Visual FoxPro Table" and so on that appears in the Windows Explorer?

Hi George,

Not exactly. If I select the EXE file in My Computer, right-click it and choose "Properties", I get a dialog box that lists type of file, location, size on disk, and so forth. One of those items is "Description" (ie, "Theme-Pak TP-Abstract Yellow for NetObjects Fusion" or some such). I want to extract that description text.

Thanks,