Hi Brian,

Glad to see I'm not going any further crazy than I've already gone (bg)...

Thanks for the heads-up. That's good to know. It looks like I'll have to read the EXE by the byte and try to find it that way.


>Evan,
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>The client I'm working for uses Wise InstallManager and I just tried this for kicks and, you're right, AGETFILEVERSION doesn't work on the exe's it creates. I tried in both VFP6 SP5 and VFP7. Humm....
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>- Brian
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>>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,