[egil]

Well topic says it all. Is it, and how?

On a second note, I'm having problems installing DirectX, IE6 and QuickTime from RunOnceEx on a Windows 2000 Pro., can anybody help with that (longer description of the problem)?

[MCT]

u should be able 2, i think

start /wait file.vbs

that should work..
regards

[AMDTWraith]

Yes.

[prathapml]

MCT, on Jul 30 2004, 02:37 PM, said:

start /wait file.vbs 
that should work..

Not when you are paranoid about security!
For example, I run this command:

assoc .vbs=txtfile

So the VBscripts are not self-running anymore after that!




In that case, run it this way:

cscript //B "%your_path%\your_file.vbs" //NoLogo //T:600

[sfamonkey]

I just did

start /wait %sysdrive%/install/winamp/winamp.js

But using AutoIt is better when writting a making scripts if you need help on how to write the scripts with AutoIt let me know.

[big_gie]

I call a .js script from cmdlines.txt like this:

wscript ..\Programmes\scripts\cmdlines.js

where cmdlines.txt is in <CD>\$OEM$\cmdlines.txt
cmdlines.js is in <CD>\Programmes\scripts\cmdlines.js

[sfamonkey]

my mistake did read. My way is through a batch.

[egil]

Thanks guys.

I'm working on a script, that will detected the computer model and install the appropiat drivers and some custom software.

The script is sorta working, having some problems with escape characters, when I try to add a string to the reg database. Does anybody know how to escape out " and \?

I tried \" and \\... didnt do the job.

[MCT]

windows will install appropriate drivers..

then all u need 2 do.. is in a batch file.. say u are wanting 2 install ati control panel

IF EXIST "%Windir%\System32\atifile.exe" GOTO ATICP
GOTO END
:ATICP
start /wait %systemdrive%\drivers\ati\cp\file.exe /switch
GOTO END
:END

same code can be modified 2 work with autoit too

hope this is of some assistance

[egil]

MCT, on Jul 30 2004, 05:26 PM, said:

windows will install appropriate drivers..

then all u need 2 do.. is in a batch file.. say u are wanting 2 install ati control panel

IF EXIST "%Windir%\System32\atifile.exe" GOTO ATICP
GOTO END
:ATICP
start /wait %systemdrive%\drivers\ati\cp\file.exe /switch
GOTO END
:END

same code can be modified 2 work with autoit too

hope this is of some assistance

I'm aware of that. My script do about the same as yours do. Instead of looking for specific files, I look at the computer model.

And yes, its the control panal thingies I need to install for the drivers. I also need to install some special programs depending on the computer (laptop/desktop and so on).

[MCT]

sorry i cant help with the .vbs, im fairly new 2 it myself..

but i would try autoit or the above method as they are pretty much straight forward

regards

[sfamonkey]

hey when you get that script done will you post it. It seems very interesting.

[AMDTWraith]

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assoc .vbs=txtfile

Theres paranoia there's taking it too far. Yes that'll break the association but couldn't you just not double click the things? VBS is a useful little scripting langauge, a great many of the IIS tools are vbs scripts, you won't be able to use any of the after that little alteration. You also break VBS for any unsuspecting users on the machine who have no idea what you did. As someone who supports some relatively complicated (in my opinion anyway) scripts used to install/uninstall an open source project this sort of thing causes me major headaches with id*** users.

Double quotes in vbs are "". By which i mean if you want a string to contain " you use "" , so a

"a quote ""quoted text"""

will be printed as

a quote "quoted text"

You'll soon get tired of couting up double quote characters. Sometimes its better to use

"a quote " & chr(32) & "quoted text" & chr(32)

for clarity, its a matter of personal preference.

[egil]

Thanks AMDTWraith. Dont I need to escape out \ ?

sfamonkey: Ill see what I can do. Might post my work log including my config files when I'm done with this RIS project. Got a few weird problems with some programs thou, that I'm currently trying to get going (link to another thread in the first post in this thread).

[fillalph]

@egil: take a look at this thread http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=21316&st. I did something similiar to what you are trying to do.

]Bonkers[

[AMDTWraith]

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Thanks AMDTWraith. Dont I need to escape out \ ?

Why? read the language specification, \ isn't important to vbs, it doesn't use c style escapes. Perhaps you'd be better of writing it in javascript if you're used to that.

[egil]

I know java, but I was just asking since I googled about and saw somewhere that I was suppose to escape out \ as well. Might just have been me looking at a page for javascripts at a late night.

Thanks again

PS. Besides the reference page on msdn, can you recommend any pages about vbs' thats good to keep in reach for reference and such.

[AMDTWraith]

The vbscript and wscript msdn reference are all i use. They even have a good regex reference in there.