Re: D70 and Histogram

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:53:59 -0800, Paul Furman wrote:

>>>PATH=C:\WIN;C:\WIN\COMMAND;C:\BATS;C:\UT;D:\WINAPPS;
>
> Yeah that path thing should have worked but didn't for me, right-click
> my computer, advanced, enviroment variables... etc. & added the path
> where I saw other similar... separated by semicolons.
>
> And I did also try navigating at a command line to the directory where
> exiftools.exe lies without luck. It's curious that I had the same
> wildcard problems with the DCRAW command line raw converter which is
> .exe (don't know what language, just a regular executable though.

There was a similar problem discussed here not long ago and it may
apply to your batch files also. I believe that the *nix shell
processes the wildcards and in your case should expand them into a
list of filenames, and pass a complete command using each one to
perl's input. Under windows, the wildcards aren't processed by the
OS, but would be passed directly to perl, expecting perl to expand
the wildcards into lists of filenames. Since perl evidently doesn't
do this you'd need to be able to create a batch file substituting
for the single wildcard-containing command line, multiple perl
command lines, one for each pair of your JPG/NEF files. You may be
able to use some programming language to do this, If not, and if
you have the old BASIC interpreter that used to be supplied with OEM
versions of MSDOS (GWBASIC.EXE), or can get a copy of it, I have a
short BASIC program that can create the batch files that would
process all of the JPG/NEF files in a folder. As I don't have XP to
test it, if you care to try it the program may have to be tweaked
slightly.

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