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[BigEHead]

has anyone seen problems using writeprofstring on windows 9x?

i'm trying to do something like this:

[Title]
Key1=Value1
Key2=Value2

but i keep getting this instead only on windows 9x:

[Title]
Key1=Value1

[Title]
Key2=Value2

can anyone shed some light?

thanks.

[Taco Bell]

I don't make setups for Win9x/Me, so no idea, but you could always use WriteLine if you have to make it work right.

[Ozone]

I develop and test install scripts using Win 98se. I have not seen the behavior you mention (the section being duplicated). InstallShield suggests that you clear the cache by calling WriteProfString with null parameters. I do this after each entry to the .ini file.

// forces writing of file NOW  
WriteProfString ( "","","","");

[BigEHead]

i've already tried that and it doesn't help.  so you've never seen that?  i don't know why it happens.  i've tried it on win95 and win98 and the same result.  works fine on nt or 2k though.  ugh....any other suggestions?

[Taco Bell]

Okay, well something to check then is whether you guys using the same version of IS.

[Stefan Krueger]

I believe that InstallShield internally calls Windows API functions for INI files. As far as I know these prevent dupilcate [section] entries. Therefore my suspicion is that there is some spelling difference in the two Title strings (maybe a blank or some non-printable character). Take a close look at the INI file with a text/hex editor.