Your Partners don't have any choice. We have. Look at the tool grom didrole. It is so difficult to make a good command line tool. I don't like teklab hosters at all! But ask them if they like to work around your update system. Am 20.02.2013 23:52 schrieb "Fletcher Dunn" <[email protected]>:
> This confusion may stem from the assumption that this tool exists solely > to download a dedicated server. Actually the tool is essentially a command > line version of the Steam client. It also is used by partners to package > up builds and submit it to Steam. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Molina > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:49 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated > Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] SteamPipe is coming. Download the TF beta > > > Andreas Grimm wrote: > > steamcmd.exe +login "anonymous" +force_install_dir > > <insert_your_directory_here> +app_update 229830 validate +exit > > > > its equivalent to the classic hldsupdatetool command: > > > > hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "tf_beta" -dir > > <insert_your_directory_here> -verify_all > > > > Here is a good example for me to pick on. Please pardon my pointy rant. > I'm trying to be positive with my criticism, so don't please think I'm > just trying to be a jerk. I realize that I'm calling out someone's work > here. > > > > With the old steam tool, you specified the working directory with the > "-dir" argument. That's perfectly reasonable and sane. > > With the new one, it's "+force_install_dir". > > Why are we forcing it? Can we NOT force it? > > And why is it the "install" dir. Can there be some other dir where we > might have otherwise gotten confused about which dir we were specifying? > > WTF_is_with_the_underscores? Why_are_they_even_necessary? > > > Do_you_realize_I_have_to_use_the_shift_key_every_time_I_want_to_type_an_underscore_and_how_much_additional_time_that_takes? > > Why was -dir not usable enough that it needed to be re-invented badly? > > > > -- > # Jesse Molina > # Mail = [email protected] > # Cell = 1-602-323-7608 > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >
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