Hi,
I found the link on how to create a button to mount an Alcohol image on this site. I tried it and am unable to get it to work. The command line based on that link says
c:\program files\alcohol soft\alcohol 120\AxCmd E: /M:"%1"
I change the E: to J: because in Alcohol J: is the drive that I use to mount my files. I then click on an .ISO file and press the button and nothing happens. J: remains in an unmounted state. Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thx
Does it seem to actually be running AxCmd?
Well i dunno what it does... I even tried running the AxCMD /? which according to the alcohol web site should display the help parameters, but it does not even to that. I tried running the command line parameter manually via the command line based on DO's button as well as the help file i found on the alcohol web page, but nothing happens. I have no clue whats going on with that.
You have enclosed the path to alcohol in quotes?
It contains spaces...
For the button, I tried exactly what was listed on the web page here for it. Also when i tried the axcmd command right from the command prompt, i was in the alcohol folder, so all i did was type in axcmd j: /m:file.iso i believe.... but even the axcmd /? from the program folder did not yield any results
Well that's a different story 
. This sounds like you're having a plain old Alcohol issue... If you run axcmd (at least with the latest trial version) you're supposed to see a seperate window popup and show the command syntax/usage. Not seeing that when you run the command manually isn't an opus issue, and even when I tried running the command manually before launching Alcohol for thfirst time, it seemed smart enough to even come back and tell me that I had no virtual drives configured and to go fix it before running axcmd again. So you'll probably want to go on over to the Alcohol 120 forums and ask them what's up with this... fix it, come back and your Dopus command should be fine.
I'll try wording it slightly different.
YOU NEED TO ENCLOSE THE PATH IN QUOTES FOR IT TO WORK!!!
The path to alcohol contains quotes - therefore windows requires that it be wrapped in quotes to prevent it splitting it up.
"c:\program files\alcohol soft\alcohol 120\AxCmd" E: /M:"%1"
Yeah but from his last post I think he sounds to have 'another' problem. He said:
[quote]but even the axcmd /? from the program folder did not yield any results[/quote]...and this was from the command line - you're definitely supposed to get some sort of response/output from the program.
Side note- I've certainly seen requirements in some parts of Opus to qualify long name paths (with spaces) within quotations; but just for the record, in a standard 'new button' on the toolbar, the following command works just fine without any quotes around the path to the executable: C:\Program Files\alcohol soft\alcohol 120\np.exe "%1".
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Side note- I've certainly seen requirements in some parts of Opus to qualify long name paths (with spaces) within quotations; but just for the record, in a standard 'new button' on the toolbar, the following command works just fine without any quotes around the path to the executable: C:\Program Files\alcohol soft\alcohol 120\np.exe "%1".[/quote]
This is true but I wish it wasn't as DOpus sends mixed messages to its users that way. As tanis correctly points out Windows requires all paths that include one or more spaces to be enclosed in quotes. So when DOpus sometimes takes care of this requirement internally it can give the impression that the quotes are not required.
When in doubt enclose the path in quotes, and it doesn't hurt to do it even if there are no spaces.
No doubt... like I said, I have certainly seen the requirement in certain parts of Opus for the quotes around such paths. I'm not trying to argue the point - I was just pointing out that this did not seem to be one of those cases. I've installed alcohol, and created a standard button to call the exact same path FatherTime pasted into this post and axcmd.exe is called properly without quotes... and selected ISO image is mounted.
But more importantly for the purposes of trying to help FatherTime with his problem... in his previous post he said that (unless I am just reading it wrong) he can't seem to get any output from running the alcohol executable directly from a command prompt while in the program directory... So regardless of whether this button scenario requires quotes or not, he seems to have a different problem here.
FatherTime - help us help you... can you confirm:
If you open a command prompt directly in the C:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120 folder where the axcmd.exe is located and run it from the command line - you get nothing right? No apparent output from the program? What version of Alcohol have you installed?