Problem Executing commandline

[Muzzikap]

I'm playing a bit with autoit. and I'm trying to mount an image in daemon tools using the command line.

Daemon tools help file:

-unmount
allows unmounting images from command line.
Syntax is: -unmount <n>
where 'n' means DVD-ROM device number ('0' - '3' allowed)

When i try to run the line shown below i get the following error returned

Het systeem kan het opgegeven pad niet vinden. >> simple translated by me>>

System cannot find given path

RunWait(@comspec & '/k c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe -demount 1')

I guess that the "/k" that i'm using is wrong. I without it an cmd-window is opened and nothing else happens. I hope somebody can tell me what I'm doing wrong and where the /k stands for (perhaps a link with info)

tnxz

[Muzzikap]

Found the problem.

Solved it using the following code that i found on this forum:

$pathToDaemonTools   = "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe"
$pathToIso           = $aImLijst[1]

RunWait ( $pathToDaemonTools & ' -unmount 1' )
RunWait ( $pathToDaemonTools & ' -mount 1, "' & $pathToIso & '"' )

Edited August 12, 2005 by Muzzikap

[seandisanti]

Found the problem.

Solved it using the following code that i found on this forum:

$pathToDaemonTools     = "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe"
$pathToIso             = $aImLijst[1]

RunWait ( $pathToDaemonTools & ' -unmount 1' )
RunWait ( $pathToDaemonTools & ' -mount 1, "' & $pathToIso & '"' )

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

cool, thanks for posting the solution, it bugs me when people post a prob then fall off the planet because they resolved it, and others waste time trying to help

[LxP]

It probably doesn't matter anymore now but I believe that the problem with this code:

RunWait(@comspec & '/k c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe -demount 1')

is that you were not surrounding the path to the .EXE in double quotes. This would probably work for you:

RunWait(@comspec & '/k "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe" -demount 1')

[Muzzikap]

It probably doesn't matter anymore now but I believe that the problem with this code:

RunWait(@comspec & '/k c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe -demount 1')

is that you were not surrounding the path to the .EXE in double quotes. This would probably work for you:

RunWait(@comspec & '/k "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe" -demount 1')

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

tnxz for your reply.

Perhaps you or somebody else can tell me what the /k does. I don't get that part of the code.

[w0uter]

/k keeps the box open.

/c closes the box.

[Valuater]

tnxz for your reply.

Perhaps you or somebody else can tell me what the /k does. I don't get that part of the code.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This may help

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen.../en-us/cmd.mspx

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[therks]

That's a command line switch for cmd.exe or command.com.

/C      Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates

/K      Carries out the command specified by string but remains

Just give this a try:

Start > Run > "cmd /k echo Hello World" (without quotes)

/c does the same thing, but closes cmd.exe right away, so it's useless for displaying things, but handy for doing something like

"cmd /c del C:\temp\*.tmp"

*Edit: Just so you know, @COMSPEC evaluates to whatever the command line utility is for your system (in my case "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" on my old Win98 system it would have been "C:\Windows\Command.com")

*Edit2: Wow, 2 more replies while I typed mine.. I took too long I think..

Edited August 12, 2005 by Saunders

[LxP]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen.../en-us/cmd.mspx

Thanks for sharing that -- I wasn't aware until now that the command prompt's colour scheme can be changed via a parameter and that it's possible to set commands to be run on every Cmd startup.

Now I can get some alias functionality happening with Doskey!