I have finally got it to work but only half way... I get ERROR3... could not be open as a MapInfo dataset Failed to open ....
I have tried two different tab files with the same result, any thoughts on this error? The tables are points only and also lines with points Regards Soren On 10/27/08 10:07 PM, "Daniel Morissette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sören Lindqvist wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > Can someone help me with this command. I have a folder lets say D:\Data\ >> that contains 50 >> > tab and its related files. I want all of this files to be converted to >> mid/mif to the same folder >> > by using a DOS batch script, then later in the process convert back to tab >> files into the same >> > folder with overwrite or a to a new folder for convenience. >> > >> > I am not a programmer and have little experience in coding, so an easy way >> is recommended >> > :) >> > >> > I downloaded MITAB but I cant understand how it should be used or installed >> > > > The tab2tab.exe program (in the MITAB Windows download package) is what > you'd use to convert a single file between MIF and TAB formats. > > e.g. > tab2tab.exe source.mif target.tab > or > tab2tab.exe source.tab target.mif > > Unfortunately the tab2tab program doesn't contain any logic to loop > through all files in a directory. If you're on Windows then you can > write a loop in a batch file to do that. The following Blog seems like a > good tutorial: > > http://jamesewelch.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/how-to-write-a-dos-batch-file-to-l > oop-through-files/ > > Daniel
