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Re: setup: Execute postinstall batch with /d to prevent AutoRun


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:12:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:17:25PM +0200, Arlo O'Keeffe wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I am experiencing issues with autorebase.bat during setup. The call to
>>autorebase.bat simply fails.
>>
>>I use a registry key [1] to execute a batch file before opening cmd to
>>setup my cmd environment with doskey [2]. I guess that doskey tries to
>>access something that simply does not exist in the noninteractive
>>shell and therefore fails. Since I could not find a way to detect a
>>noninteractive shell in cmd I was thinking one could change the call
>>to cmd in script.cc to include the /d parameter [3] to prevent running
>>the AutoRun registry keys.
>>
>>Does that make sense?
>
>Would renaming autorebase.bat -> autorebase.cmd fix this?

While modifying setup to deal with .cmd files, of course.

cgf


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