Help with ad.exe being called from a bat file

[jth085272]

Hi all,

I need help figuring how to get ad.exe to work when being called from a batch file. I can get the batch file to copy ad.exe to the world of warcraft installation folder, but when trying to start ad.exe from the batch file, I get an error message saying "No locales detected". However, if I got to the WoW installation folder and manually start that same ad.exe the batch file copied, it executes with no problem.

code in batch file:

rem Location of extractors
set dbcmapExtLoc=Extractors
set vmapExtLoc=Extractors
rem Location of WoW installation
set wowInstallLoc="C:\\Users\\Public\\Games\\World of Warcraft"

set /p yesno=Extract dbc, map and vmap files?
if %yesno% neq y if %yesno% neq Y goto sqlStart

copy %dbcmapExtLoc%\\%dbcmapExt% %wowInstallLoc%
%wowInstallLoc%\\%dbcmapExt%

Any ideas?

[faramir118]

Your current working directory is wrong, try

cd %wowInstallLoc%
%dbcmapExt%

[Lynx3d]

Or even better, don't copy ad.exe at all and use -i option to specify input path...

[jth085272]

thank you both for your replys. i could not get the -i option to work at all. not even outside of a batch file. however i did get it to work with the following:

copy %dbcmapExtLoc%\\%dbcmapExt% %wowInstallLoc%
cd /d %wowInstallLoc%
start %dbcmapExt%