[Gpsbabel-misc] Drag and drop question

[Dillon, R. <Ros...@mt...>]

Alex Mottram supplied the following batch file content on the web page:

 

@echo off

gpsbabel.exe -i gpx -f %1 -o s_and_t -F %1.csv

 

That worked great (especially that it drops the output file in the same
folder as the input file) 

except (as he says himself) that it appends rather than replaces the
extension.

 

So to actually replace the extension in XP or NT, Alex then provided the
following code:

 

@echo off

gpsbabel.exe -i gpx -f %1 -o s_and_t -F "%~n1".csv

 

Problem is, this places the output file in the same folder with the
batch file, rather than where the input file came from.  I wasn't
familiar with the syntax used, but I suspect the ~n strips the path as
well as the extension. Ideas?  

 

Ross "Roscoe" Dillon