I don't use xcopy, mainly because of the power of robocopy, and I
have used it with witango. Try downloading the windows 2003 resource
tool kit, and use robocopy. Otherwise, seems weird.
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On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Robert Shubert wrote:
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.
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-----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.
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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
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