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Autorun menu exe
Name: Toad Date: August 17, 2003 at 10:26:48 Pacific OS: XPPro CPU/Ram: 1.5gP4/1gRDram
Comment:
I burned 6 software App on a CD, I'm always installing the same ones on clients systems so instead of swapping out 6 CD's one after the other. I got the idea to do the Autorun.inf file & the shell command to be able to allow right-click & chose which app to install, then i got cocky & wanted to do a little autorun exe "menu" which would have 6 command buttons each linked to the "folder\setup.exe" to launch the app. With the VB "menu" app on the CD what path do i tell the shell command to find the exe in a folder on the same cd. As the drive will not always be D: Or E: etc.
Name: borelli34 Date: August 17, 2003 at 15:16:59 Pacific
Reply:
Don't use a drive assignment to start with. If you use a DOS level dereference within the path (ie start the path with a forward slash '\') and specify the remainder of the path needed to find the file.
borelli34
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Response Number 2
Name: Sci-Guy Date: August 17, 2003 at 16:40:33 Pacific
Name: Toad Date: August 17, 2003 at 17:19:09 Pacific
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Software looks good but it's like cheating, I should learn this stuff. I'm getting a snag w/ the path run time 53 file not found w/ Shell ("\folder\app.exe"), if I code for the root, shell("app.exe") & empty the folder onto the CD the app comes back w/ an install error, which it does not do if I right-click the drive & install w/ the Shell\app=app Shell\app\Command=folder\app.exe
You can use App.Path and rid yourself of concern on which drive letter your client is configured with.
Infinite Recursion
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Response Number 5
Name: borelli34 Date: August 17, 2003 at 23:22:36 Pacific
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Actually you need to begin the path with a double forward slash '\\' and it actually doesn't hurt to do this throughout the entire path (use a double slash wherever you use a single slash). Sorry, I forgot about that little detail.
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