Executing shell Commands in InstallShield X

[rtand1]

Is there a way that I can execute shell commands from inside installshield?

Thanks,

Rob

[GatorBadMan]

One way is to create a VBScript and instantiate the Wscript.shell object to issue any shell commands. Here's a quick example for you - [this one will stop the WWW NT service]


Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.run "net stop w3svc"

[vadimk]

Also you can use installscript, just get the value of the environment variable COMSPEC and run the command
%COMSPEC% /c <your command>

One thing you should know is that you can't just use %COMSPEC% as an argument for LaunchApp you have to first get the value of it.