Thread: ebook-convert corrupts Windows XP command.exe environment?
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Old 07-17-2011, 04:18 PM   #1
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ebook-convert corrupts Windows XP command.exe environment?
In the course of trying to make my external fix for the KIindle 3 news problem compatible with Windows XP, I discovered that ebook-convert seems to corrupt the Windows XP command.exe environment.

The symptom is that if you run ebook-convert with a recipe, it completes the download but somehow corrupts the environment in such a way that command.exe no longer runs batch files, and if ebook-convert was called within a batch file that batch file terminates immediately after ebook-convert. The built-in Windows commands still work, but no batch file will run--the command prompt simply returns as if you had only hit the Enter key if you try to run a batch file.

You have to close the command window and open a new one to get back to normal batch file operation, so something got clobbered when ebook-convert ran.

This doesn't happen with Windows 7.

Any thoughts from someone familair with ebook-convert?
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