Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Can You Spot the Difference? #2

One of these works, the other does not.  Can you tell which is which?  Do you know what happens when you run the one that does not work?

A) MSIEXEC /I MyStupidInstaller.MSI TRANSFORMS= MyStupidCustomizations.MST /quiet /norestart

B) MSIEXEC /I MyStupidInstaller.MSI TRANSFORMS=MyStupidCustomizations.MST /quiet /norestart

2 comments:

Randy said...

I see the space after the equals sign but not being a writer of code, I have no idea what would happen if I ran it.

Feeling better today? Hope that what ever set you off on the code rant is now better, but I enjoyed your prose.

skatterbrainz said...

We have a winner! Ding! Ding! Ding! The answer to what happens is that you get the same msiexec.exe dialog box that appears if you just click START, RUN, and type "msiexec" and press Enter.

As for my mood? Yep. I'm having a better day. No sleep. Big projects overlapping each other. But much better overall. That day was more than a bad mood or bad hair day though. I was asked to fix up some scripts written by an "expert" (I love that term). Those scripts were a ****ing mess. Oh well.