Thanks everyone... My situation is just so weird...
If I have a bat that contains just the word "dir" I sure enough get the directory listing back in @@resultset If I then change nothing else but the "dir" to "xcopy" I get nothing back. Not even the "use ? to see commands" If I do xcopy > c:\output.txt and call with dbl-click, the text file fills with the error. If I call it with Witango I get no output. I've moved the actual xcopy app to the working directory I've used the cd \path\ at the top of the bat to set my working directory I've used parameters and not used parameters I've tested that it works via dbl-clicking and calling it from a cmd prompt I've set my Witango service to run as administrator I've used drive letters and UNC pathing, as well as relative paths I've done every blasted thing I can think of it is just ignores it every time. It really looks like a permission thing, but there's no error - no output at all. And no, it's not doing any copying either. My hypothesis is that there is some kinda weird permission thing with xcopy (other command lines work like dir, md, erase) I'm going to check out a few alternative apps that might do the trick, thanks for the suggestions. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Scott Cadillac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 5:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: calling xcopy Hi Robert, > you also can't pass command line arguments to external program. so > the technique is, use a write action to create a bat file of what you > want, then RUN that as external. Actually.... You can have just one static bat file (Write Action not required), and use the External Action environment variable fields to pass your command line arguments in. Example: you have two environment variables named copy1 and copy2, then your bat file would have: XCOPY "%copy1%" "%copy2%" Hope that helps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scott Cadillac (403) 254-5002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] XML-Extranet P.O. Box 69006 RPO Bridlewood SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2Y 4T9 http://www.xmlx.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 3:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: calling xcopy > > you also can't pass command line arguments to external program. so > the technique is, use a write action to create a bat file of what you > want, then RUN that as external. Also, be explicit with the directory > references. > > -- > > Robert Garcia > President - BigHead Technology > VP Application Development - eventpix.com > 13653 West Park Dr > Magalia, Ca 95954 > ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ > > On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Robert Shubert wrote: > > > Does anybody no why xcopy wouldn't work properly in a batch file > > when it's > > called by Witango as an external? The batch file functions as > > expected if I > > double-click it, but when Witango 5.5 calls it, the xcopy function > > is just > > glanced over. This is on Windows server 2003. Thanks, Robert > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > __ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
