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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip J Marshall [mailto:pjmarshall@o...]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:28 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: P&D - Silent Install



The exe resides on the server, and the 70 workstations will have the
shortcut to the .exe on the server.  However, various ocx and dlls need to
reside on each client.  The real goal for the 'install' is to distribute the
dlls and ocxs onto the clients, without having to go to each machine to do
this.  I am basically using the functionality of the installation wizard to
copy and register these files, and run MDAC_TYP.EXE.

A route could be to go through the SETUP.LST file created by the P&D wizard,
make a script to run register each dll.  If this  is a logical solution,
please let me know, since I have not registered controls from the command
prompt/ batch file before.

Thanks

Phil Marshall


-----Original Message-----
From: philip.moh@a... [mailto:philip.moh@a...]
Sent: 14 February 2001 19:22
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: P&D - Silent Install


are you trying to say that you have a vb application and this application
will be use by the series of NT workstations?
otherway to do this is you can install it on a particular machine and share
it. Each terminal will creat a shut-cut that point to the you vb application
-- this is the easiest way.

--
Batman

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Phil [SMTP:pjmarshall@o...]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:45 AM
> To:	professional vb
> Subject:	[pro_vb] P&D - Silent Install
>
> At work, I have to deploy a VB 6 app to a series of NT workstations.  The
> source package is located on an NT server.  The installation is to run
> silently.   In the MSDN, it states you can run PDCmdLn.exe to have the
> package install silently.  However I could not find a good example of the
> syntax.
>
> I would appreciate an example of how to achieve this, or alternative
> suggestions.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip Marshall, Programmer
> Clinical WebWare
> pjmarshall@o...
>