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About Command Lines
Creating a Command Line To Apply to an Installation
Windows Installer Editor Reference
See also:
About the Mobile Devices Page
About Palm OS Installations
Process for Adding Mobile Device Support to an Installation
Command lines change the behavior of an .EXE for different work environments and
user requirements. You can work with two sets of command lines for installations:
Command lines that you can apply
to installations at run time
Call MSIExec.EXE.
Are applied to Windows Installer
installations or patches at run time.
Options let you specify UI, logging,
advertising, and repair options. They
also let you edit public properties,
apply transforms, and apply or remove
patches.
Are documented fully in Command Line
Options and Standard Installer
Command Line Options in the Windows
Installer SDK Help.
Can be built automatically with the
Command Line page.
See
Creating a Command Line To
Apply to an Installation
page 251.
Can be built manually.
See Command-Line Options in the
Windows Installer SDK Help.
See also:
WFWI.EXE Command Line Option Example
Automating the Build Process
Not available in a transform.
Command lines cannot be applied to a transform.
Use the Command Line page in Installation Expert to create syntactically correct
command lines to apply to an installation at run time. These are applied to MSIExec.EXE
on the destination computer. Command lines that you create appear in a popup menu
for the Test and Run buttons so you can test them.
on page 244
on page 248
Command lines that you can apply to
Windows Installer Editor for
compiling
Call WFWI.EXE.
Are applied to Windows Installer Editor at
run time to compile an installation.
Options let you control logging and UI, and
set default values for properties in the
compiled installation.
Are documented in Wise product
documentation.
See
Command Line Options For WFWI.EXE
on page 259.
Must be built manually.
on
on page 261
on page 261
Advanced Installations
on page 245
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