Dear Chris (Robison), Have you tested the original .bat file? I ran into just this issue earlier today. I had written my .bat file from Visual Studio (11) which started as a UTF-8 (or -16 not sure) .txt file. Not surprisingly, it had the BOM appended to the front, which prevented execution.
Respectfully, Tim On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote: > Garbage in, garbage out. > > > Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously though, I've never heard on Windows > Installer doing this. Do you have any custom actions that updat the file? > Is it possible the file is corrupted during the build process. ( Hence the > GIGO joke. ) > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: "Chris Robison" <chrisdrobi...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:35 PM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Installer prepending garbage at the beginning of batch > file > > > I have a batch file that I'm packaging into an installer and when it gets > > installed on a machine, the installer seems to be putting garbage text at > > the beginning of the file. This is causing execution problems. Any > > suggestions? > > > Chris > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. > Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. > Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
