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[seagum]

Hi !

I am currently in the process of a migration of an IS 5.x based installation program towards an IS 6.31 setup and found some differences in the implementation of the InstallScript function ExistsDir().
In IS 5, call ExistsDir() with the following path statement was possible and successfully performed : ..\..\PATH\DISK1.
In IS 6, a call to ExistsDir() with the mentioned parameter always returns NOTEXISTS (-1).

Can anybody confirm this difference ?
Has anybody already developed a workaround to this situation ?

Thanks in advance
Michael

[Taco Bell]

Never used IS5, but according to the IS6 help, the parameter "Specifies the fully qualified path of the directory to find on the target system.", so a relative one is not acceptable.

[seagum]

Hi !

I basically agree, but the same statement was also present in the IS 5 documentation.

[Blake Miller Wonder]

IS versions and patches are like a see-saw or a teeter-totter.
Some bugs get fixed and other things which worked perfectly fine are then broken.  Go figure...