http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4517
------- Additional Comments From truiken@gmail.com 2007-04-01 16:29 -------
The reason I am posting here is because my bug has been RESOLVED as a DUPLICATE
of this one, because the error is the same 'Unable to get ShortPath size' thing. Other bugs related to installation failures of MS Office 2002 and 2003 also have been marked as RESOLVED - DUPLICATE of this one.
'Unable to get ShortPath size' is a message for developers that really doesn't mean much anymore; it's certainly not a bug. Someone went a little dup crazy on this bug. Read comment 12.
Maybe this bug could change its description,
Nope.
because currently its description makes it look like it's a problem specific
to MSVC, while it's not.
Yes it is. That's why we have a wine bugzilla standard of naming bug reports after the problem, not what's causing the problem in the code. Someone came along and saw the same 'err:' message and marked all the bugs as dup's when they're more than likely not dup's.