On 9x boxes only

Runnin Kixtart 3.63

would seem if it wouldn't work in shell environment it wouldn't work in the script environment?!?!?!??!

COMMENTS ANYONE?

maybe someone wiser can say if it should be available in script either.

cheers,

Found from one of the "long-time" batch file gurus (Tom Levedas) the answer is no from Google Newsgroups and specifically the alt.Ms-DOS Newsgroup .

But, there is hope here reading the resulting replies from the above referenced NewsGroup.

It looks kind of like this..

code:

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$Sysdrive   = SUBSTR( "%windir%", 1, 2 ) ; -- What this does is get the C:
; -- borrowing a bit of code from - http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBA/tip0100/rh0120.htm 
$L = "@LSERVER" + "\" + "NETLOGON" + "\" + "WINSET.EXE"
shell "$L SYSTEMDRIVE=$Sysdrive"
setl "SYSTEMDRIVE=$Sysdrive"

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HTH,

- Kent

[ 08 February 2002: Message edited by: kdyer ]

When you can determine where Windows is installed at, you should be able to setup the systemdrive variable..

Thanks!

- Kent

if you read the first post:

quote:

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Anyone else seem to notice %SYSTEMDRIVE% only works in the script but if you shell out and use %SYSTEMDRIVE% it doesn't work at all.

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so it works in the script. without any creation.
I know you can make it to be, but thing is, how it can allready be there, when it shouldn't.

Watch for word wrapping

Below won't work on 9x but will NT(I understand why it works in NT)I don't think
the old DOS environment likes %systemdrive% in fact if you do a set command from the prompt you will not see %systemdrive% set. But NT will.

shell "%comspec% /e:1024 /c copy @LDRIVE\ntsdprim.exe %SYSTEMDRIVE%"

while shelling for 9X it has to be like below

shell "%comspec% /c copy \\kixiistestsvr\netlogon\9xsdprim.exe \"

But below works in the script run-time, however I believe what is happening is the
%SYSTEMDRIVE% is being just being ignored by KIX and the following "\" is working.

IF exist ("%SYSTEMDRIVE%\9xsdprim.exe")

Hope I didn't confuse this issue more than it already was. Thanks for previous replies!

More comments guys and gals ?!?!?

Shawn

Please excuse the long URLs in this response.

%systemdrive% does not exist in 9x.

Try this..

Go to - http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=alt.msdos.batch

Search within the alt.msdos.batch and search for systemdrive..

First result - http://groups.google.com/grou ps?q=systemdrive+group:alt.msdos.batch.*+group:alt.msdos.batch.*&hl=en&selm=7o6ud1%24hnq%241%40nnrp1.deja.com&rnum=1

Should be the right one.. Tell it to show all articles for this thread..

I tried to paste in the whole URL of all of this, but did not work. Let's try this again - http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=7o6ud1%24hnq%241%40nnrp1.deja.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsystemdrive%2Bgroup:alt.msdos.batch.*%2Bgroup:alt.msdos.batch.*%26hl%3Den% 26selm%3D7o6ud1%2524hnq%25241%2540nnrp1.deja.com%26rnum%3D1

This is where I got my answer from.. So, I took what little I could find and expand upon it. Armed with this information is where the resulting KIX Code came from above.

Thanks!

- Kent

[ 09 February 2002: Message edited by: kdyer ]

Bill

code:

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IF (@INWIN = 1)
  $OSDir = READVALUE ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion", "SystemRoot")
  $OSDrv = SUBSTR ($OSDir, 1, 2)
  $OSSys = "System32"
ELSE
  $OSDir = READVALUE ("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion", "SystemRoot")
  $OSDrv = SUBSTR ($OSDir, 1, 2)
  $OSSys = "System"
ENDIF
COPY "@LDRIVE\(filename)" "$OSDrv\"
or perhaps
COPY "@LDRIVE\(filename)" "$OSDir\$OSSys"

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Thanks for your reply.

That would get the files copied to the
%windir% which is where much to my surprise my IE patch files were being DL'd to anyway
I thought they were going it to root. or "\"

Since my login.bat is copying the KIX runtime files to windir anyway that's where they were winding up.

Once I realized what was happening I just started copying from ldrive to "\" and all files were copied to root while shelling.

Later

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