Posted by Andrew Jakowleff (85.202.226.141) on August 01, 2006 at 10:02:46:
: PanoCube fails launching PTStitcher using 4NT instead of CMD.
: 4NT shows "4NT: Unknown command "-"" as error message and just displays the prompt. Why do you invoke PTStitcher via the shell (as given by COMSPEC)?
Yes - first versions of PanoCube communicates with PTStitcher.exe via shell. Later it was changed (read below).
: A little debugging shows, you invoke the shell using a command line like "- /Cstart /w ...". The leading "-" confuses 4NT -- what's its purpose?
Yes I can confirm - the same error with 4NT here. But works fine with 4DOS ;-) You could change COMSPEC environment variable from 4nt.exe to 4dos.exe and work from the 4NT shell too.
The leading "-" is not sent from PanoCube but seems added by 4NT itself. PanoCube's command starts from "/Cstart ...".
BTW PanoCube Plus uses slightly other syntax to communicate with PTStitcher.exe and works fine with 4NT.
I see you use linux box to sent your message - there is a native Linux binaries for PanoCube Plus too - works fine from a command line, scriptable, preserve filenames.
=Andrew Jakowleff