Program Parameters option

[smifffy]

Hi all,

 

First time poster, so go easy

 

I'm trying to get the program parameters option to work. My objective is to output the result of dos window to a file.

 

So in DOS this is what I'd do:

 

C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe -R > C:\logfile.log

 

and so in Macro Express I assumed that I'd use the program parameters option and put -R C:\logfile.log in there. Something like this:

 

 

But it doesn't work? As soon as I put a space in the program parameters field it fails. I also can't see why it fails because the DOS window closes immediately on fail.

 

Any help much appreciated.

[rberq]

Try including the > (greater than) sign in the program parameters:

-R > C:\logfile.log rather than

-R C:\logfile.log

 

I don't think it is the space that is causing the problem -- I have a similar program

call where I pass two parameters separated by a space, like this:

MGM %T82%

[smifffy]

Ahh, yeah, My typo - I've tried the > sign and it doesn't like the 2nd argument?

 

I've tried using "" marks around each of the arguments too, but it doesn't work.

 

Any other help much appreciated....

[kevin]

Macro Express is unable to redirect ( > ) or pipe ( | ) output to stdout. To accomplish this you can create a batch (.bat) file and call it from the macro.

 

You batch file should look like this:

C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe -R > C:\logfile.log

 

and your macro like this:

[smifffy]

Macro Express is unable to redirect ( > ) or pipe ( | ) output to stdout. To accomplish this you can create a batch (.bat) file and call it from the macro.

 

You batch file should look like this:

C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.0\SyncToyCmd.exe -R > C:\logfile.log

 

and your macro like this:

 

Genius. Thanks