RogeneJih, I posted a description of how to use the Universal Translator on the command line about a year ago.
Here is the posting from 03/20/3001: ************* 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 *********** _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
