[AccessD] Updating front-end via batch file?

Awesome.  I'l keep an eye out.

-C-

---- Original Message ----
From: spikee at oatlandspark.org.uk
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Updating front-end via batch file?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:18:12 +0100

>Hi Christopher!
>
>I have a batch file at work doing just the job you are after.
>
>If you can wait 'til Monday I'll send it to you then.
>
>Regards!
>Chris Foote
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Christopher
>Hawkins
>Sent: 15 October 2004 20:39
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Updating front-end via batch file?
>
>
>Hello, all.
>
>I have a client who is constantly tinkering with his home-grown
>Access solution and is constantly rolling out updates (against my
>advice, of course).
>
>I was about to set him up with a simple batch file that just uses
>COPY [origin] [destination]  to copy  the latest version of the .mdb
>from a folder on the server to a user's machine.  But before I do, I
>want to know if it is possible to get a little fancier.
>
>I would like the batch file to a) compare the filename on the user's
>machine to the filename on the server, and then b) do the copy if the
>names are different, or c) NOT do the copy if the names are the same
>(my client likes to put the version number in the filename).
>
>Is this too much to ask of the humble batch file?
>
>
>-Christopher-
>
>P.S.
>And for those of you who wonder why I don't use a vbscript file, this
>client swaps eMachines and other budget boxes in and out of his
>business based on what's on sale at Costco that week (again, against
>my advice).  I can't be sure that new boxes he brings in will have
>WSH or any of the complementary components installed on the
>bastardized version of WinXP that ships with a lot of thses crap
>boxes.  But I know that batch files work on everything from Win95 up.
>;)
>Respectfully,
>
>Christopher Hawkins
>Software Developer
>(559) 687-7591
>http://www.christopherhawkins.com
>
>
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Respectfully,

Christopher Hawkins
Software Developer
(559) 687-7591
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