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MAPINFO-L
The Universal translator is a stand-alone program "\professional\ut\imutgui.exe" that's started from a mapbasic
program. The "imutgui.exe" is a Windows front-end for the command-line
program "\professional\ut\imut.exe".
"imut.exe" can be run outside the MapInfo environment.
You can control "imut.exe" by feeding it parameters and a reference to a
FME-Macro on
the command-line. Because "imut.exe" is a scaled down version of the
http://www.safe.com)
is it possible to control imut.exe
with the some of the same parameters you use in FME. You can download the
full
documentation to FME from www.safe.com, including the chapter on
translations using the command-line program.
There is some caveats:
1) A _lot_ of the feature functions and factories from the original
FME-program has been disabled.
2) Coordinate translation "inside" imut.exe has been disabled
What you _can_ do:
1) Use imut.exe from the command-line, ie. from bat-files or start it from
mapbasic or other programs.
2) Write your own (limited) fme macros
If you search the ..\ut directory (and subdirectories) you'll find many
snippets of fme control-macros, that is used by MapInfo.
A warning - the fme control language _is_ a bit cryptic....
Good luck
Bo Thomsen
GIS-consultant
GeoConsult I/S, Denmark
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