Thread: ebook-convert corrupts Windows XP command.exe environment?
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Old 07-17-2011, 04:25 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by nickredding View Post
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.
Corrupt? No.

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Originally Posted by nickredding View Post
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,
If your going to run ebook-convert in a batch file in XP you have to use the start command with the wait switch. If I recall correctly

start /wait ebook-convert.exe

I believe this goes for other calibre command line tools too.
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