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[m999]

I can execute the following from the command line successfully and It silently installs the product.

MyInstaller.exe /s /v"/qn DATA_DIR=\"C:\mydata\""


I want to execute that from another installation in my InstallShield project. I wrote the following code and its not working.

szMyInsPath = "K:\\install\\utilities\\" ^ "FIR" ^ "MyInstaller.exe";
LongPathToQuote(szMyInsPath, TRUE);
szFIRArgs = "/s /v\"/qn DATA_DIR=C:\\mydata\"";
nResult = LaunchAppAndWait(szMyInsPath, szFIRArgs, WAIT);
SdShowMsg("Executing MyInstaller.. Please wait...", FALSE);

Note: If I remove the "/s" and "/qn" from the path, the installer works but the GUI from MyInstaller.exe shows up. Also, Please note that MyInstaller.exe doesn't need any input from the user.

Thanks.

[Stefan Krueger]

I believe you need to escape the other backslashes and quotes in szFIRArgs, too, since the script compiler will interpret that string constant:
szFIRArgs = "/s /v\"/qn DATA_DIR=\\\"C:\mydata\\\"\"";