"Viviana Vc" wrote in message
news:5d7lkjF3302lgU1@mid.individual.net...
> Hi all,
>
> I had until now, and worked fine on WinXP And Win2k the following:
> - into my application directory, C:\Program Files\MyApp a second_app.exe
> which needs admin rights to run
> - into the same dir I have: MyTrace.bat which contains the following
> lines:
> second_app.exe > MyTrace.txt
> second_app.exe >> MyTrace.txt
> - when a user was into a very-specific trouble (meaning very seldom), he
> had to double-click the MyTrace.bat which would generate in the same dir
> the MyTrace.txt, which then should be sent somewhere.
>
> Now, this scenario doesn't work on Vista b/c:
> - if I double-click on the MyTrace.bat the creation of the MyTrace.txt
> fails as it's in Program Files and the console's ">" and ">>" will fail
> - if I right-click on the batch and say "Run as admin" the console will
> actually prompt to system32, so the second_app.exe won't be found to be
> run
>
> I know of course that I could change the .bat to:
> second_app.exe > %TEMP%\MyTrace.txt
> second_app.exe >> %TEMP%\MyTrace.txt
> and it would work, but I would like to find a method, so that the
> MyTrace.txt to be generated in the same dir where MyTrace.bat is. Is
> there a way to do that? (if for instance at the very beginning of the
> batch file I could somehow change the directory to the directory where
> this batch file is (don't know how to do that), and then the batch could
> be run with "Run as admin").
>
> Thanks,
> Viv

Evil Vista should probably be better discussed in alt.msdos.batch.nt as NT+
batch concepts differ from DOS/9x techniques.

Having said that, and avoiding Vista until it's been properly debugged, I'd
try

second_app >>%~dp0mytrace.txt

Thx Peter for the answer. The "%~dp0" was exactly what I needed!

Viv

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:40:58 +0800, "Peter Wright"
wrote :

>
>"Viviana Vc" wrote in message
>news:5d7lkjF3302lgU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had until now, and worked fine on WinXP And Win2k the following:
>> - into my application directory, C:\Program Files\MyApp a second_app.exe
>> which needs admin rights to run
>> - into the same dir I have: MyTrace.bat which contains the following
>> lines:
>> second_app.exe > MyTrace.txt
>> second_app.exe >> MyTrace.txt
>> - when a user was into a very-specific trouble (meaning very seldom), he
>> had to double-click the MyTrace.bat which would generate in the same dir
>> the MyTrace.txt, which then should be sent somewhere.
>>
>> Now, this scenario doesn't work on Vista b/c:
>> - if I double-click on the MyTrace.bat the creation of the MyTrace.txt
>> fails as it's in Program Files and the console's ">" and ">>" will fail
>> - if I right-click on the batch and say "Run as admin" the console will
>> actually prompt to system32, so the second_app.exe won't be found to be
>> run
>>
>> I know of course that I could change the .bat to:
>> second_app.exe > %TEMP%\MyTrace.txt
>> second_app.exe >> %TEMP%\MyTrace.txt
>> and it would work, but I would like to find a method, so that the
>> MyTrace.txt to be generated in the same dir where MyTrace.bat is. Is
>> there a way to do that? (if for instance at the very beginning of the
>> batch file I could somehow change the directory to the directory where
>> this batch file is (don't know how to do that), and then the batch could
>> be run with "Run as admin").
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Viv
>
>Evil Vista should probably be better discussed in alt.msdos.batch.nt as NT+
>batch concepts differ from DOS/9x techniques.
>
>Having said that, and avoiding Vista until it's been properly debugged, I'd
>try
>
>second_app >>%~dp0mytrace.txt
>