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Old 04-05-2011, 10:35 AM   #1
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converter brakes batch file on XP, thou not on 7

Hi,
using 'ebook-convert.exe' inside batch, breaks execution on XP (SP3):

Code:
ebook-convert.exe sample1.epub sample1.mobi
ebook-convert.exe sample2.epub sample2.mobi
ebook-convert.exe sample3.epub sample3.mobi
same if we use CALL:

Code:
CALL ebook-convert.exe sample1.epub sample1.mobi
CALL ebook-convert.exe sample2.epub sample2.mobi
CALL ebook-convert.exe sample3.epub sample3.mobi
Note that this is just simplified batch to demonstrate problem

batch file breaks after first execution, so only 'sample1' is converted. This does not happen on Windows 7 which may indicate some special exit code.

Please consider this post as thank you for making such neat converter

Cheers

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Old 04-05-2011, 11:11 AM   #2
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Old 04-05-2011, 11:38 AM   #3
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That would open as many shell sessions as calls, in parallel (instead in sequence), which is undesirable when starting process is resource hungry
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Old 04-05-2011, 11:48 AM   #4
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Old 04-05-2011, 11:58 AM   #5
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OK
Thanks Manichean for your tips

I solved it by using FOR loop on CLI (it does not break there), but my idea here was to notify developer about possible problem

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Old 04-05-2011, 12:06 PM   #6
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As far as I know, that is a problem with the Windows command line interpreter. Since, if I remember correctly, it's due to some stupid design or behaviour on Microsoft's part, it's unlikely the problem is ever going to be fixed- Kovid has expressed his reluctance before to code around stupid designs
But it was good you mentioned it- sometimes we users do things that the developers never intended and break stuff, or just plain find bugs. It won't do for them to get bored, after all
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Old 04-05-2011, 12:24 PM   #7
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I would not call anything coming from MS laboratories stupid but such complex things as OS are hard to be paired even when using something magical as Python
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Old 04-05-2011, 12:35 PM   #8
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Well, at least some code page stuff is horribly broken. Special characters in the german translation of Calibre don't get displayed anything near properly.
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Old 04-05-2011, 12:50 PM   #9
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That's probably Python problem
I had issues with 2.5 and 2.6 when trying to use multiple different CPs, but hopefully Python 3 and up, makes thing lot easier concerning code pages

However 'chcp 65001' always works in shell as anyone would expect - UTF-8
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