Trilogy 4.2

Great work Timesurfer.

 

Making a new virtual machine to test IR5

P.s you should edit your sig since IR5 and IORRT are now deceased

Edit: Tested and works perfectly!

 

Although I haven't tried it myself, I would think you can use the "findstr" command to do so. Some things to consider would be:

- If you find 1 existing entry, do you stop or do you continue on with the next entry until you've gone through all of them.
- If you continue on, you would have to keep track of the added entries, so that you can "uninstall" it later, but not the entries that existed prior to your "install".
- What if the entries your checking are found in a different order? Do you remove any entries you've added this far?

Anyways, good luck with it.

 

Here's some sample code you could use to do this. Of course you would need to modify it to include all of the entries and to actually do something rather than echo a message.

Code:

@echo off
findstr /i "3dns-2.adobe.com 3dns-3.adobe.com activate.adobe.com" hosts
if errorlevel 0 (echo FOUND) else (echo NOTFOUND)

Hope that helps.

 

Try this:

Code:

@echo off
findstr /i "3dns-2.adobe.com" hosts 2>nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 echo Asc5T is already installed...
) ELSE (
echo Asc5T is already uninstalled...
pause
)

 

May I ask how ACS5T came to fruition? Just seems weird that it got thrown in with the rearm functions of other Microsoft product.
I do use PS so this does come in handy.

 

That works fine with my testing. Stupid question, but, does your hosts file contain "3dns-2.adobe.com" prior to Asc5T installation? I am using XP but I don't see that causing any issues.

 

Oops, found the mistake. You are missing the opening "(" before your echo statement.

The corrected code should be:

Code:

@echo off
findstr /i "3dns-2.adobe.com" hosts 2>nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (echo Asc5T is already installed...
) ELSE (
echo Asc5T is already uninstalled...
pause )

The problem was I didn't use your exact code to do my testing.

 

I'm not sure if I am understanding you correctly.

If "3dns-2.adobe.com" is contained within your hosts file, it should echo "Asc5T is already installed...".

If the entry is not contained within your hosts file, it should echo "Asc5T is already uninstalled...".

Is that not right? If not, what are you looking to have happen?

 

Not sure what to tell you. I am testing the exact code as above and it works fine. The only minor changes I would do are:

Code:

@echo off
findstr /i "3dns-2.adobe.com" hosts >nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (echo Asc5T is already installed...
) ELSE (
echo Asc5T is already uninstalled...
)
pause

Without the 2 before the ">nul", it echoes the found entry (when found) and by putting the pause outside, if happens regardless if found or not.

 

My testing involved only using the above code and a copy of my hosts file, and everything works fine. Would you mind telling me how you are testing, exactly? When I get a chance, I'll see if I can find the issue.