Vista Shortcut string

Hi Gang;

Quick Question. I have an old application that looks for the full
string file name (c:\etc\etc\etc) of an application so that it can apply the
right helper files to the application. Its an extra specialized keyboard
for gaming. The old keyboard application apparently can't handle the length
of the full Vista 64 string as it cuts off about a third of the way through.
I used to know a way for a shortcut to call a shortcut, but it seems that
Vista 64 doesn't like that.
Is there a way in vista for a shortcut to call a shortcut?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom <(remove)> wrote:
>
> Quick Question. I have an old application that looks for the full
> string file name (c:\etc\etc\etc) of an application so that it can apply
> the right helper files to the application. Its an extra specialized
> keyboard for gaming. The old keyboard application apparently can't
> handle the length of the full Vista 64 string as it cuts off about a
> third of the way through. I used to know a way for a shortcut to call a
> shortcut, but it seems that Vista 64 doesn't like that.
> Is there a way in vista for a shortcut to call a shortcut?


You have not gone into the details for me to say for sure, but you will most
probably be able to sort this out by making Junction Points with the MLINK
command, using the /J switch.

ss.

Thanks for the reply, SS. A quick search for MLINK tells me that its
totally out of my depth.

The gaming keyboard that I have is the Nostromo n52. It uses an application
called the Nostromo Loadout manager which runs minimized and looks for any
one of a number of games that I have programmed to use the Nostromo
Keyboard. When one of the games is executed, eg "C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe", the loadout
manager will select the correct loadout/configuration for the Nostromo
keyboard so that various commands or macros can be executed in the game with
a single key of the Nostromo n52 keyboard. Trouble is that tghe Loadout
Manager will only honor a string of the length of "C:\Program Files (x86)\EA
GAMES\Battlefield 2". This mean that everything past "C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft Games\Microso" is cut off. Not sure how to get past this
limitation.

Tom

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> Tom <(remove)> wrote:
>>
>> Quick Question. I have an old application that looks for the full
>> string file name (c:\etc\etc\etc) of an application so that it can apply
>> the right helper files to the application. Its an extra specialized
>> keyboard for gaming. The old keyboard application apparently can't
>> handle the length of the full Vista 64 string as it cuts off about a
>> third of the way through. I used to know a way for a shortcut to call a
>> shortcut, but it seems that Vista 64 doesn't like that.
>> Is there a way in vista for a shortcut to call a shortcut?
>
>
> You have not gone into the details for me to say for sure, but you will
> most probably be able to sort this out by making Junction Points with the
> MLINK command, using the /J switch.
>
> ss.