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Number   :  4763
Date     :  2003-06-06
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Install.bat
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> XXCOPY install is nothing but invoking the "XXCOPY /INSTALL"
> command. If you run XXCOPY.EXE directly (as opposed to
> running the INSTALL.BAT), you may run it from anywhere.
> XXCOPY.EXE will figure out where it is stored and find its
> companion files and copies all necessary files to the
> target directory.


Kan, due to the noise of my posts, maybe you overlooked
the other method I mentioned to run xxcopy /install.
Rather than doing a CD to the install.bat directory,
you can eliminate all that and simply have the following
in install.bat:

%0\..\xxcopy.exe /install

Since you say xxcopy.exe will find itself once it is
running, the above will work even more reliably than the
methods to CD to the install.bat directory. It will still
fail in the rare case that that install.bat is in the path
and invoked from a different directory without specifying
the path (gives a 'bad command or file name' or equivalent).
However this could be dealt with by a slight change to the
error messages in install.bat.

I haven't tested this 100% (I only proceeded as far as the
licence details screen before stopping) but it seemed to work
fine on everything I tried except as noted above. The
advantage to doing it this way is that it doesn't rely on
the %OS% variable and of course it's more succinct.

Garry



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