Admin Director and BEFORECMD

I have two batch files created, one that does a complete hands free
uninstall of SW and one that installs some add in, regitry settings,
etc.

In the admin directory "client options" file you can run and programs
BEFORECMD and AFTERCMD.

The problem is when you use the BEFORECMD, it only wait about 10
seconds then starts the SolidWorks install. I want my batch file that
uninstalls everything and cleans out the registry to finish before the
SW install begins.

Anyone know how to make the SW install wait until the batch command ran
from BEFORECMD finishes?

 

Try using "start /wait command.exe". That tells windows to wait for
the program to finish. For example, if you go to a command prompt and
type:
notepad
Then notepad will start and you have the command prompt available
again. But if you type:
start /wait notepad
Then the command prompt will wait on notepad to close.

Jonathan Anderson

 

The BEFORECMD command is in a .ini file which is called out by and HTML
file that is created by the admin director. I tried the start/wait in
there but it did not work.

Thanks for your input.

 

The old dos one, used to be pause, not completely hands free, but almost.

 

Pete,

I dont want to use pause. I would like to be able to pause the batch
file until the SW install finished, but I think that may just be
outside of the scope of a batch file.

Josh