For all of those mapinfo users frustrated by the Universal Translator (UT) utility not
having a batch process.
I finally got around to needing to run the UT as a batch process for several
thousand files.
It's a 2 step process to generate a mapping file from the mapinfo file to the shape
file and then to do the
processing.
STEP 1: Generate the translation mapping file
at the dos command line enter:
c:\mapinfo6\ut\imut CFGenerate MAPINFO SHAPE "C:\Topo\50\1M\10\MapInfo/" "format.dat"
LOG_STANDARDOUT YES +ID "wetland"
All the pieces:
c:\mapinfo6\ut\imut - UT executable
CFGenerate - Generate command
MAPINFO - input file type
SHAPE - output file type
"C:\Topo\50\1M\10\MapInfo/" - input path, notice the end slash, it seems
to need it
"format.dat" - output mapping file used in step 2
LOG_STANDARDOUT YES +ID - some UT variables for logging
"wetland" - input file name, quotes are important
This will create a file called format.dat which contains all of the information UT
needs
to map from the Mapinfo file "wetland" to the Shape file.
STEP 2: Do the translation
The next step in the process requires a control file you have to create yourself.
I called this file doimut.dat
Start Contents: everything below this line
MACRO _EXTENSION TAB
MACRO _BASENAME wetland
MACRO _FULLBASENAME wetland
MACRO SourceDataset C:\Topo\50\1M\10\MapInfo/
MACRO DestDataset c:\temp\ut
INCLUDE format.dat
MAPINFO_IDs "wetland"
MAPINFO_IN_IDs "wetland"
End Contents: everything above this line
The quotes are important
The path should match the one used in the generate STEP 1
The format.dat is the mapping file created in STEP 1
The file name should match the one used in the generate STEP 1
The Command Line:
c:\mapinfo6\ut\imut doimut.dat
I wrote a short script to create all of the pieces and then execute them and it worked
out fine.
Larry Nolan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://solutionsgroup.tripod.com Mapinfo Utilities
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