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Finding default JMP installation path on windows

vince_faller — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:49:59 GMT

I'm trying to run a simple powershell script to run a JMP script. But some people don't have JMP installed in the default path and some have multiple versions of JMP. How can I find the path to JMP that would open if I double clicked a jmp file?

I looked at the registry and found

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{12B91C6F-6FEC-44E8-BA7A-D36BFFF3EE5F}\LocalServer32

That changes when I reset associations

Just wanting to confirm that it will be the same for everyone, seems like it. Is this the best way to find the install path?

Re: Finding default JMP installation path on windows

guillaumebugnon — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:18:57 GMT

Hi Vince,

InstallDir key could be usefull for your use case:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SAS Institute Inc.\JMP\15.0\Options\InstallDir

The JMP release is include into the path, so you also can check if jsl can be run with the release.

Guillaume

Re: Finding default JMP installation path on windows

vince_faller — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:08:30 GMT

But if I have 10 versions installed, I need to know which one is the default and where it is.

Re: Finding default JMP installation path on windows

Craige_Hales — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:26:12 GMT

This might work:

runprogram(executable("cmd.exe"),options("/c ftype JMP.Document"),readfunction("text"))

returns something like

JMP.Document=C:\Program Files\SAS\JMPEA\17\jmp.exe /shellopen \!"%1\!"