I wrote a program that parses an inf file somewhat and finds the files referenced under SourceDisksFiles. I'm not sure how accurate that would be, but it copies the referenced files, inf, and cat to another directory.

It's a console program, but seems to require .NET. If anyone knows how to manipulate directories without using .NET or even Windows API please let me know XD.

Let me know about any problems. I only have so many drivers to test with, plus I'm not formatting any time soon. I really need someone to test install these and see if it gets all the needed files.

For those who don't want to install .NET, the 2 dlls below seems to be the ones it needs. I haven't actually tried this.

mscorlib.7z

mscoree.7z

Synatx: inf.exe driver.inf {dest}

dest defaults to Temp in the current directory.

Current features:

1. Maintains necessary directory structure.

Planned features:

1. Parse more than one inf at a time. Maybe something like all infs in given directory.

2. User interaction if no arguments on command line.

Edited November 20, 200421 yr by OCedHrt

Good idea but using .NET Framework ( 20 Mb download) to run a small console tool isn't good for me.

So it does need .NET then? I think at most it only needs 1 dll file, but I can't test it because I do have .NET installed. The only part that may require .NET are calls to functions under SYSTEM::IO. I'm not too sure if that is under .NET since it is all new to me. It may just need mscorlib.dll. About 500kb compressed, I can send it if anyone is interested.

cool, thanks!

got to give this a try.

Your tool query mscoree.dll not in path ?

May be can you post a link to download only this dll and dependencies and i will have a second try.

#using <mscorlib.dll>

Thats all it is.

mscorlib.7z

mscoree.7z

Give that a try.

Update: Added mscoree.dll.

Would be better if someone could tell me how to create directories w/o using .NET or even the Windows API. I can copy files by creating streams, but directories..no idea.

So, any comments? Does it work?

hp38guser has written a batch file which do the same + add compression without having to install some dlls or full .NET

Driver Compressor

This app doesn't work. It just hangs. I have .NET installed but I also tried it with the 2 dlls in the inf.exe dir. I checked different inf's with and without target dirs. It just hangs...