Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-23 Thread Shawn Dwyer
Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 September 2008 18:27 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction > > Thanks Neil, good point. On the command line, > > if I execute: > for /r "C:\Program

Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
What does the "echo f | xcopy" do? Can't you just use the xcopy? -Original Message- From: Shawn Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2008 18:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction Th

Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-23 Thread Shawn Dwyer
alue. > > Neil > > Neil Sleightholm > X2 Systems Limited > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message- > From: Shawn Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 September 2008 17:54 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-23 Thread Neil Sleightholm
bell that "for" returns a non zero value. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Shawn Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2008 17:54 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Us

Re: [WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-23 Thread Shawn Dwyer
Anyone have any ideas why I'm getting an error? Is there a better way to achieve this? Thanks, Shawn On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Shawn Dwyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > We are preparing to release the next version of our product, which will > completely remove all previous versions.

[WiX-users] Using cmd in a CustomAction

2008-09-18 Thread Shawn Dwyer
Hi, We are preparing to release the next version of our product, which will completely remove all previous versions. However, before uninstalling we want to back up all the configuration files for the user. To accomplish this I thought I'd just use cmd.exe and a simple 'for' command to make a cop