Since I already had everything worked out for xcopy, Ben's suggestion of xxcopy was a drop-in solution. Thanks! Robert
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: calling xcopy 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. -- 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 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
