Re: commands not waiting, /wait not helping

Thanks, yes I had come to the same conclusions.
But have you ever seen wise actually wait even with
start /wait ... ?
for me it returns immediately even though the compilation happens a moment
later, so I presumed it is spawning a second process and exiting.
This all started because I have a main app installer that itself installs 3
smaller install programs, and I wanted to ensure the included projects were
current before compiling the main one. A programmer had put together these
batch files, but apparently never checked to see that it waited and actually
worked LOL.
So much for saving some time with a quick batch file; Clearly I need to do a
..mak script or simply have the main install script either prompt the user for
each project or take the time to regenerate them every time.

Thank you all very much for your time on this. I certainly know the Start
command better than I used to!
-Brian

"Severian [MVP]" wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:42:01 -0700, "bh"
> <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >"Gary Chanson" wrote:
> >> You should be able to execute something like:
> >> START /wait "C:\Program Files\Wise Installation System\Wise9.exe" /c
> >> "U:\path\Scriptfile.wse"
> >
> >you may think it "should", as I did, but in fact that is exactly what does
> >NOT work.
> >Start aborts with an "invalid switch" reply.
>
> (All of the below is on Win2k; I haven't tested on later OSes.)
>
> What seems like it should be the obvious solution gives me exactly the
> same error. The START command hates the quoted parameters.
>
> Try this simple test:
>
> start "some text file.txt"
>
> It will open a new, empty command window, instead of notepad with the
> file.
>
> For Wise, like most application, I always install it in a simple
> folder (i.e., d:\dev\Wise9). Then, this works fine:
>
> start/wait d:\dev\wise9\wise9.exe /c /s setup.wse
>
> Another option is to add the wise installation folder to your PATH
> environment variable; then you should be able to do:
>
> start/wait wise9 /c /s setup.wse
>
> Also, wise should really provide a separate command-line compiler, to
> make it easy to use from Visual Studio and other IDEs.
>
> --
> Phillip Crews aka Severian
> Microsoft MVP, Windows SDK
> Posting email address is real, but please post replies on the newsgroup.
>
.

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