pisymbol
30th April 2006 16:19 UTC

Simple quesiton, how to get exec output?
I'm having a hard time getting the output from the C:\Windows\System32\hostname.exe command. I just want to grab the hostname. I've tried Nsexec, Exec, ExecDos and I can't get the output properly. If I log it to a file I get a strange ASCII characters at the end which I would need to parse.

I've looked at the FAQ, did a search, looked at various scripts and I don't see it...

Can someone give me a quick example? It would come much appreciated.

Thanks!

Anders
30th April 2006 16:35 UTC

you can call GetHostName with the system plugin

pisymbol
30th April 2006 16:45 UTC

Yeeee...you mean call the System.dll file...didn't think about that (new to Windows)...is this different than reading out of "HKLM System\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Hostname"? That's what I'm doing as a work around.

Anders
30th April 2006 21:46 UTC

System::Alloc 400
pop $2
System::Call 'ws2_32::WSAStartup(i 514, i r2) i .r3'
System::Call 'ws2_32::gethostname(t .r0, i ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN}) i .r1'
System::Call 'ws2_32::WSACleanup() i .r4'
System::Free $2
MessageBox MB_OK "WSA startup result $3, WSA cleanup result $4, gethostname result $1, hostname $0"

from http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=144919

pisymbol
1st May 2006 17:51 UTC

Thanks man...talk about overhead!