I have expierienced that applications like Gimp, PDFCreator, and others
indeed start using uninsXXX files with XXX != 000 when removed and/or
reinstalled..
Most of the time this gives me multiple uninsXXX.exe files, but only one
valid uninsXXX.dat file making that executing any uninsXXX
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171
--- Comment #3 from ralf.lede...@ite.uni-stuttgart.de 2009-09-07 09:37:58 ---
Thank you for the quick response.
It seems that you can send a message longer than 256 characters with msg.exe,
if you deliver it by stdin:
echo very long message |
Hi
I don't really see the big difference between calling an external tool
like psshutdown instead of the default windows shutdown command as wpkg.js
can do now, and an external tool for user notification instead of the
default windows NET or MSG command. But indeed due to the nature of such a
http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171
--- Comment #4 from Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org 2009-09-07 10:57:26 ---
Very nice... what a crap...
Actually the quotes for the echo command are not required. If you use them
they will be passed to msg.exe and appear as a part of the piped
--- Comment #4 from Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org
2009-09-07 10:57:26 ---
Very nice... what a crap...
Actually the quotes for the echo command are not required.
If you use them
they will be passed to msg.exe and appear as a part of the
piped characters.
Moreover the solution has some
Hi Stefan,
Redirect the input from a file:
Msg.exe MyText.txt
WPKG does not use any temporary files. I will not start using such work-arounds
and hacks just for a feature which is very rarely used. Especially since longer
messages than 256 characters are also not very user friendly (who is
