Get the ubook reader program to read HTMLZ

[BetterRed]

@Vortex - can you post

1. what you get when you double click the HTMLZ
2. what you get when you Send the HTMLZ To your batch file

Or are they the same ?

I would expect to see something like

echo copy "Title - Author.HTMLZ" "Title - Author.ZIP"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "Title - Author.ZIP"

Send To on "«library path»\Title - Author.HTMLZ" will invoke your batch file with this command

C:\htmlz2zip.bat "«library path»\Title - Author.HTMLZ"

I don't understand why you are iterating through a directory, why don't you

extract the string before the ".HTMLZ" from %1 into %N (name)
concatenate %N and ".ZIP" to create %F,
copy %1 to %F
run ubook with %F

BTW: You should delete the ZIP when ubook exits. Its bad practice to leave files in book files that calibre doesn't know about

BR

[PeterT]

From my experiments the "file not Found" means there are NO files matching *.html in the current directory when your script runs.

This is reinforced by the fact that IF any files had been found we should have seen lines like
copy "foo.htmlz" "foo.zip"
being output.

Even in your example above

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C:\>for /F "tokens=* delims= " %a in ('dir/b *.htmlz') do (
copy "%a" "%~Na.zip"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "%~Na.zip"
)
File Not Found

C:\>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .
================================================

all it's saying is there are NO htmlz files in your c:\ directory.

[Vortex]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Vortex - can you post

1. what you get when you double click the HTMLZ
2. what you get when you Send the HTMLZ To your batch file

Or are they the same ?

I would expect to see something like

echo copy "Title - Author.HTMLZ" "Title - Author.ZIP"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "Title - Author.ZIP"

Send To on "«library path»\Title - Author.HTMLZ" will invoke your batch file with this command

C:\htmlz2zip.bat "«library path»\Title - Author.HTMLZ"

I don't understand why you are iterating through a directory, why don't you
extract the string before the ".HTMLZ" from %1 into %N (name)
concatenate %N and ".ZIP" to create %F,
copy %1 to %F
run ubook with %F

BTW: You should delete the ZIP when ubook exits. Its bad practice to leave files in book files that calibre doesn't know about

BR

BR, I didn't write the batch file, I'm useless at coding, it's all double dutch to me. Putting "echo" infront of the copy command is stopping the batch from working so this is what I get with '@echo on'.

1. When I double click the HTMLZ I get:
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C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\Calibre Portable\Calibre Library\Carolin
e B. Cooney\Freeze Tag (6)>for /F "tokens=* delims= " %a in ('dir/b *.htmlz') do
(
copy "%a" "%~Na.zip"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "%~Na.zip"
)

C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\Calibre Portable\Calibre Library\Carolin
e B. Cooney\Freeze Tag (6)>(
copy "Freeze Tag - Caroline B. Cooney.htmlz" "Freeze Tag - Caroline B. Cooney.zi
p"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "Freeze Tag - Carolin
e B. Cooney.zip"
)
1 file(s) copied.
================================================== =
(it works fine)

When I 'Send to' the HTMLZ to the batch file I get:
================================================
C:\>for /F "tokens=* delims= " %a in ('dir/b *.htmlz') do (
copy "%a" "%~Na.zip"
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" "%~Na.zip"
)
File Not Found

C:\>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .
================================================
(batch file is in C:\)

[Vortex]

Peter, even if I copy the htmlz file I'm trying to open through Calibre with the batch file into C:\ it still gives the same error.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Vortex

BR, I didn't write the batch file, I'm useless at coding, it's all double dutch to me.

@Vortex - Aaah, OK

I'm using «library path» as shorthand for the calibre library/author/book folder. So using the book you're using as your test that would be

C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\Calibre Portable\Calibre Library\Caroline B. Cooney\Freeze Tag (6)

The command line 'template' as shown in the bottom panel of File Types Manager is

"C:\htmlz2zip.bat " "%1"

So when you Send (To) your test HTMLZ the %1 is replaced by the path to the HTMLZ file ie

"C:\htmlz2zip.bat "«library path»\Freeze Tag - Caroline B. Cooney.htmlz"

I suggest you ask whoever wrote the batch file you have, to rewrite it to do the following,

extract the string before the ".HTMLZ" from %1 into %N (name)
concatenate %N and ".ZIP" to create %F (file)
copy %1 to %F (.htmlz to .zip)
run ubook with %F
delete %F

Don't throw the old one away - rename it to htmlz2zip.batsave

Maybe one of the script kiddies here could do it for you

BR

[PeterT]

Maybe this?

@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansioN

:main
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.htmlz') do (
copy "%%~fa" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ubook\uBook.exe" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"
)
Pause

I might have gone slightly overboard in there
The %~da returns the drive letter (ends with a : )
The %~pa returns the path only (fully pathed, and ends with a \ )
The %~na returns just the file name

[BetterRed]

@PeterT - well done (I hope), but you forgot to remove the zip - Vortex wants to run the batch file against HTMLZ files in book folders.

BR

[PeterT]

I thought the idea was to copy an HTMLZ file to a ZIP file and thats what I'm doing.

The 'dir/b *.htmlz' looks for the htmlz files
The copy "%%~fa" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip" copys the original fully qualified name (the %%~fa) to the NEW name (the "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip") with a ZIP extension

The only thing I'm NOT doing is the delete of the file.

If desired add

del  "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"

AFTER the

"C:\Program Files (x86)\ubook\uBook.exe" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"

and before the

)

[BetterRed]

@PeterT - the batch file is used as the 'program' that does an 'open' verb in the OS File Association table for HTMLZ - there's no need to look for the HTMLZ file because its full path is passed as the only argument as in

C:\htmlz2zip.bat "%1"

So when its used the command will be something like

C:\htmlz2zip.bat "C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\Calibre Portable\Calibre Library\Caroline B. Cooney\Freeze Tag (6)\Freeze Tag - Caroline B. Cooney.HTMLZ"

So the batch file needs copy the .HTMLZ to a .ZIP in the same location with the same file name, run ubook with the .ZIP and when ubook finishes delete the .ZIP.

@Vortex try this

Rename htmlz2zip.bat to htmlz2zip.batsave
Then replace htmlz2zip.bat with this

REM echo off !unREM this when you're happy it works
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION 
set str=%1
set name=%str:HTMLZ=ZIP%
copy %1 %name%
start /wait "C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" %name%
del %name%

There should be no need to use Open With - just press 'V' and select HTMLZ or click HTMLZ in Book Details

BR

[Vortex]

Ah! looks like we're getting somewhere. That works through Calibre but strangely opens the zip in Winzip instead of ubook. Deletes the zip fine after closing Winzip.

[Vortex]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Maybe this?

@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansioN

:main
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.htmlz') do (
copy "%%~fa" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\ubook\uBook.exe" "%%~da%%~pa%%~na.zip"
)
Pause

I might have gone slightly overboard in there
The %~da returns the drive letter (ends with a : )
The %~pa returns the path only (fully pathed, and ends with a \ )
The %~na returns just the file name

That gets the same 'File not found' error as mine.

[Vortex]

Removing the "Start \wait" from infront of ""C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" %name%" make it work perfectly.

REM echo off !unREM this when you're happy it works
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set str=%1
set name=%str:HTMLZ=ZIP%
copy %1 %name%
"C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" %name%
del %name%

[PeterT]

@BR

Remember the first parameter to the start command is the Window Title; the second one is the command to execute.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by PeterT

@BR

Remember the first parameter to the start command is the Window Title; the second one is the command to execute.

@PeterT - Whaddya mean "Remember ..." I never knew to forget

@Vortex - it might be better to reinstate the start command, otherwise I think there's a danger that the 'del %name%' might happen before ubook has finished reading it

Here's the doco for START http://ss64.com/nt/start.html, have a read about what it says re TITLE - so I think this would be better

start "" /wait "C:\Program Files\Program Files Portable\ubook\uBook.exe" %name%

BR

[Vortex]

I did try just removing the "/wait" but that still had it opening in Winzip. With the new line of code above it works perfectly