On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 18:53, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  For the record, the proper command would have been:
>>>
>>>        DEVCON restart "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27CC"
>>
>> A single backtick as a delimiter?
>
>  Those are single-character double-quotes.  ASCII ordinal 34
> (decimal).  The same as would be used for a file name containing
> spaces.  They also quote other things.  Like the ampersand.  ;-)

Ah - I thought it was a backtick for a second. I have Tim Hill's book,
it's as good as it gets for scripting under the CMD shell

>  CMD is a crock.  I've always thought Microsoft should have just
> licensed 4DOS/4NT from Rex Conn/JP Software.  (Yah, yah, PowerShell.
> It arrived 15 years late and is a memory pig.)

Concur.

>> I don't think I've run into devcon before - I'm glad you've done my
>> experimentation for me, though. Heh.
>
>  Glad to be of help.  ;)
>
>  Seriously, though, DEVCON does seem to work as advertised, provided
> you remember how the CMD shell works.  :)

I wonder how well it would work under PowerShell? Heh.

Kurt

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