Lee Bussy

I have a need to detect if I am currently running under PAE mode. I did some Googles and came up rather empty. Any ideas?

Wow ... well a long story short but my code works now. Honestly I'm noit sure what I was doing wrong at this point, but it's good to know I wasn't completely off my rocker. I don't know if anyone noticed the time I posted but I'm UTC (-05:00) so I think a distinct lack of sleep was my worst problem. Thanks to all who replied. Reminding me what I needed to know was called "operator precedence" was what got me to th section I was looking for as well.

I'm sure there's a simple way to do this but so far I seem to be making it too hard I guess. Consider this line: If ($s_ConsolArc = "Archive" And $b_DoArchive = 1) Or $s_ConsolArc = "Consolidated" Then What I am trying to do is enter the subsequent code if either of these condtions are true: $s_ConsolArc = "Consolidated" or $s_ConsolArc = "Archive" And $b_DoArchive = 1 I assume I am making a mistake somewhere and that it is indeed possible to accomplish this, so a virtual beer for my foolishness to the person who helps.

Aha! The old bubble sort! great call, thanks for kiling my gray matter into firing on all cylinders.

I did not see that function, I'll give it a look, thanks. I was thinking I'd have to write that part, much better to use something existing. Can we be certain that the last file is actually the oldest file?

I've been pondering this one a few hours, and there has to be an easier way to do it. Here's what has to be done: Let's say directory "A" has database log (like binary log) files. Directory "B" is my backup directory. I want to copy anything that is in A to B. Pretty easy with: FileCopy($s_DBFolder & "\*.log", $s_HourlyFolder, 0) ... but then I want to maintain X days of log files past the oldest file in "A" in "B" for emergencies. I thought about things like creating an array with FileFindNextFile and all sorts of horrible solutions, but there are potentially thousands of files and there has to be a better way. Any ideas on the best way to attack this?

Well that wasn't it (thank you for replying) but it did send me to find the right answer. The line: RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & $sVolume & ":/" & $sExecutable, $sVolume & ":/",@SW_SHOW) is what blew me up. Apparently the volume returned by DriveMapAdd has a trailing colon so the correct line was: RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & $sVolume & "/" & $sExecutable, $sVolume & "/",@SW_SHOW) ... and that worked. Damned glasses!

I received some help getting my environment set up in .?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent> I'm still having issues and not really sure why. I figured I'd post the whole issue and see if someone can tell me what I am doing wrong. Here is the batch file I am trying to emulate: @echo off REM See if T: is mapped to \\server\volume If exist t:\program.exe goto starthere REM Unmap T: and re-map to \\server\volume %SystemRoot%\System32\net use t: /delete > NUL %SystemRoot%\System32\net use t: \\server\volume > NUL :starthere REM Map a printer to LPT2 (change as needed) > NUL net use lpt2 /delete > NUL net use lpt2: \\printserver\printer > NUL t: program.exe > NULAs I posted in the the batch file requires that the folowing is set up in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Config.NT: dos=high, umb files=125 device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys device=%SystemRoot%\system32\emm386.exe NOEMS(Yes this is a very old program) I am not worrying about the printer right now, I need to make that more generic, but here's the issue I am having: The "system" needs to be at the correct drive (in this case T:) before running the program. I have tried the working directory options but so far no luck. Here is where I am: $sShare = "\\server\share" $sExecutable = "program.exe" $sVolume = DriveMapAdd ("*", $sShare, 8) If @error Then MsgBox (0, "Error", "Error mapping drive to " & $sShare) Else MsgBox (0, "Success", "Mapped drive " & $sVolume & ": to " & $sShare) EndIf EnvSet ("dos", "high, umb") EnvSet ("files", "125") EnvSet ("device", "himem.sys") EnvSet ("device", "emm386.exe NOEMS") EnvUpdate() MsgBox (0,"Debug","Executing: " & @ComSpec & " /c " & $sVolume & ":/" & $sExecutable) RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & $sVolume & ":/" & $sExecutable, $sVolume & ":/",@SW_SHOW) DriveMapDel ($sVolume) MsgBox (0, "Removal", "Un-mapped drive " & $sVolume & ": from " & $sShare) Exit I believe that the executable is not running in it's own directory. When I type the "debug" line into a command prompt I get errors form the program telling me it can't find it's configuration files (not working in the right directory). This is a long post for what is very likely a simple issue, but I wanted to give enough information so I don't have to keep coming back to the well. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

BrewMan I'm also a friend of the Widow's Son. Nice to "meet" you. GEOSoft that's exactly what I needed, thanks!

I have an old DOS application (yes DOS, not command line) that I need to run on a contemporary OS. Presently this requires setting the following lines in Config.NT: dos=high, umb files=125 device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys device=%SystemRoot%\system32\emm386.exe NOEMS I'd like to call this application without having to set those options that way ... like set up the environment and make the call to the executable all in one script. Anyone have any ideas? Short of parsing the Config.NT to see if it was there, adding it if it was not, and then removing the lines again after I have not been able to find anything appropriate.

Thanks John and Smoke_N. I'll give those a try when I get to the office this morning (after coffee of course). Every time I come back to AutoIT I am amazed at it's versatility. I've done some pretty complicated stuff with it in the past (back when we could talk about game automation here) and it was limited only by the imagination. EDIT: Works great, thanks again!

Was not familiar with AdlibRegister, that's a good one to use. I was going to put it in a loop, the function is even more snazzy.

I'm wanting to hit the "OK" button (which is highlighted by default). The pop-up does not become active meaning I miss it more often than not. I have not had the chance to fix my screwup with the class name, I'll give it a go when I hit the office in the morning.

Something along these lines would get you close: ; Split string at the ":", return array $fields = StringSplit ( "Army Troops : 1000 x", ":") ; Remove the right most character (StringTrimRoght) and ; strip white space from the second element in the split ; array (StringStripWS) $yournumber = StringStripWS(StringTrimRight( $fields[2], 1 )) ... untested but it should be real close. EDIT: Doh, people answered as I was typing.

Messaging. You can either implement a canned messaging system (even email has been used like this) or do a real quick and dirty thing like drop a file in a shared folder (VM's make this pretty easy) and watch for said file on the other computer with a process.