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writing an autorun.exe
I have a setup.exe which i will run through autorun.inf.
But before running setup.exe i have to run one more exe which will check whether a specified file exists, if exists skip setup, otherwise installation should run.
Tell me in detail how do i check the file existence before running setup.exe.
But before running setup.exe i have to run one more exe which will check whether a specified file exists, if exists skip setup, otherwise installation should run.
Tell me in detail how do i check the file existence before running setup.exe.
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Thank u it serves my purpose.
Thank u Gopi.
I would strongly recommend you look at jkr's suggestion. It will be faster and far simpler.
mkprasad's code is slower and causes a resource leak. By the time you fix that leak it will be signficantly more complex again.
mkprasad's code is slower and causes a resource leak. By the time you fix that leak it will be signficantly more complex again.
Does anyone know if this accepted answer was posted as a comment or as an answer?
Yeah,
i posted it as a comment.
and about the leak,
u can write a simple function which takes care of every thing.
BOOL FileExists(const char * filename)
{
struct _finddata_t _file;
long hFile;
if( (hFile = _findfirst( filename, &_file )) == -1L )
return FALSE;
_findclose( hFile );
return TRUE;
}
i posted it as a comment.
and about the leak,
u can write a simple function which takes care of every thing.
BOOL FileExists(const char * filename)
{
struct _finddata_t _file;
long hFile;
if( (hFile = _findfirst( filename, &_file )) == -1L )
return FALSE;
_findclose( hFile );
return TRUE;
}
You are missing the point. GetFileAttributes is not only simpler and more direct, its likely to be 100s of times faster. Yes, you can remove the bug in your code, but that only made it slower and more complex.
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but i want to run check.exe which checks for a particular file existence. This check has to be done with our opening cmd window. If u can give me the code for this it will be helpful
if ( -1 == GetFileAttributes ( "drive:\\path\\file.ext"))
{
// does not exist
}
else
{
// does exist
}