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[Thomas Ulrich]

Hello,
I  run am application from InstallScript (Developer 7) which creates a "dos" window with information. Normaly you can "pipe" this screen into a textfile with ">"-operator.

I used the following line:

LaunchAppAndWait ( "C:\\DMS32\\Source~1\\Hardlock\\hldinst" , "-info > c:\temp.txt" , WAIT );

I get the expected screen, but I can`t "pipe " it into the textfile.

If I use the windows command line outside Dev7 it works fine.

Where is the problem??

Regards
Thomas

[Perotin]

Try putting the command into a batch/cmd file and run this one.

[SoftwareJock]

I encountered a similar problem where the piped output of a LaunchAppAndWait program was a zero length file.  Additionally, the program created the expected piped output file when it was run directly from a command window.

The problem was caused by an incomplete path when the program was run from LaunchAppAndWait.  Specifically, the directory for one of the program's dependent DLLs was not in the path used by LaunchAppAndWait.  I solved the problem by performing a ChangeDirectory to the DLL directory before executing LaunchAppAndWait.

Curiously, when the failure was occurring LaunchAppAndWait returned a successful completion code & no "missing DLL" error msg dialog was displayed.