Running csctipt to get printer list

[kpassaur]

I am trying to get a list of active printers and put them in a drop down list. The plan is to use

cscript prnmngr.vbs -l >c:\printerdetails.txt

This command if run from the command line (XP or NT users), provided you are in c:\window\system32 generates a text file that can easily be parsed into a list for my drop down menu.

However, if I use

Change Directory>C:\WINDOWS\system32
/Let>RP_WAIT=1
/Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=0
Run Program>cscript prnmngr.vbs -l >c:\printerdetails.txt

It does not generate the list and when I step through it using F8 I see a result of 33 which is not in the help file as to what kind of error it is. However it works from the command line

I am assuming that there maybe a difficulty with running cscript from MS. Has anyone tried something like this in the past or know of an easy way to get a list of printers?

[Marcus Tettmar]

Do this instead:

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Let>RP_WAIT=1
Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=0
Run Program>cmd /c cscript %SYS_DIR%\prnmngr.vbs -l >c:\printerdetails.txt

[kpassaur]

Thanks Marcus, I had just figured out the cmd portion but I didn't know I could use %SYS_DIR% which is really neat

Thanks