[Biggy1982]

Hello, i dont know if what i want is posible or not but heres what i want to do and need help with doing.

I want to copy files and directories from a CD-rom to the C: drive.
This is not witch is hard, here comes the twist in my ear, The batch file will be ON the cd and so can not be edited, the CD has to be usable on anny computer.

Normaly if one makes a batch you do copy d:\files\*.* C:\files
D in this case being the CD-rom, but since not everyone has the D as cd-rom, i cant do it this way.

Recap: How to copy files in a dir on a cd to the C drive without being able to specifie the exact source path.

[OBP]

You could ask the user to enter their CD drive number.

[Biggy1982]

So how do i encorperate the asking of the CD drive in a batch?
Ow and keep in mind the people that us this wont see the batch file, all they see is a picture.
We are going out from the point of users that hardly know what a keyboard is.

[OBP]

Most batch file programs have a user input, what batch file program are you using?

[aewarnick]

If the batch file is on the cd, just put it in the root of the cd and copy the files without a full path:

copy "Folder\file.exe" "c:\"

[StumpedTechy]

I have a trick that works every time -

for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\file.ext set CDROM=%%a

What I normally do is create a "dummy" file and call it CD.ID and put it on the root of the CD rom.

then in the batch file put everything as %CDROM%:\directory\directory\file.ext and %CDROM% will then the %CDROM% will point back to the token.

ONE WORD OF WARNING -

MAKE SURE THIS FILE YOUR SEARCHING FOR DOES NOT EXIST ON ANY OTHER DRIVE ROOT OR IT MAY PICK UP THAT DRIVE INSTEAD.

I.E. if you change

for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\file.ext set CDROM=%%a

to be -

for %%a in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do if exist %%a:\Autoexec.bat set CDROM=%%a
and there is an Autoexec.bat on your C:\drive then your going to get your C:\ as your token and not the CD-Rom (hence why I use a dummy CD.ID file)

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by aewarnick

If the batch file is on the cd, just put it in the root of the cd and copy the files without a full path:

copy "Folder\file.exe" "c:\"

exactly. If it is running from the cd drive you would not need to use the full path with the drive letter.

I found something Similare to what Stumpy posted. It is just another batch file called FindCD.

http://www.nu2.nu/utils/