Command line problem

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(imported topic written by mauricem)

I’m having a problem with a fixlet I’ve written that fails when a command line needs to be run. The original command line is:

%Windir%\SYSTEM32\Rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection TcOfficeAuto.inf, DefaultUninstall,5

I’ve parsed it our to what I thought was the Big Fix equivilent, but it still comes back as “failed”.

// Run TcOfficeAuto.inf
wait "{pathname of system folder & “\Rundll32”} & " advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection " & __Download\TcOfficeAuto.inf & “, DefaultUninstall,5”

Any ideas why? I’m guessing it has something to do with the part that refers to the inf file but I’m not sure.

Thanks in advance for your assistence.

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Maurice,

You are really close. The problem is you are trying to evalutate relevance in an action script outside of curly braces {}. The & operator will only work in relevance. Changing your syntax slightly will fix it:

// Run TcOfficeAuto.inf
wait “{pathname of system folder & “\Rundll32”}” advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection __Download\TcOfficeAuto.inf, DefaultUninstall,5

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(imported comment written by brolly3391)

Hello mauricem,

Direct DLL calls are usually very pick on their syntax.

To translate your original line directly would be like this:

{pathname of system folder}\Rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection TcOfficeAuto.inf, DefaultUninstall,5

I notice a couple of things. First you have added quotation marks in your relevance version but there are not quotes in the original. I assume that is to accomodate long file names. We can handle that. but I am not sure that the DLL can. You might need to move the .INF to a location that does not have white space in the file name.

I notice that there is a space between some of your commas and not between others. With all that said, I think the command line you are looking for is:

wait “{pathname of system folder}\rundll32” advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection “__Download\TcOfficeAuto.inf”,DefaultUninstall,5

Cheers,

Brolly

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(imported comment written by mauricem)

brolly33

Hello mauricem,

Direct DLL calls are usually very pick on their syntax.

To translate your original line directly would be like this:
{pathname of system folder}\Rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection TcOfficeAuto.inf, DefaultUninstall,5

I notice a couple of things. First you have added quotation marks in your relevance version but there are not quotes in the original. I assume that is to accomodate long file names. We can handle that. but I am not sure that the DLL can. You might need to move the .INF to a location that does not have white space in the file name.

I notice that there is a space between some of your commas and not between others. With all that said, I think the command line you are looking for is:
wait “{pathname of system folder}\rundll32” advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection “__Download\TcOfficeAuto.inf”,DefaultUninstall,5

Cheers,

Brolly

It worked! Thank you both for your advice. I not only fixed this issue, but can take what I’ve learned to writing other code. Its different from some other languages I’ve written in, but the same in other ways.