packjpg / packJPG

A compression program for further compressing JPEG image files
http://packjpg.encode.ru/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Open necros2k7 opened 4 years ago

necros2k7 commented 4 years ago

packjpgx64.exe -p *.jpg

--> packJPG v2.5k (01/22/2016) by Matthias Stirner / Se <-- Copyright 2006-2016 HTW Aalen University & Matthias Stirner All rights reserved

Processed 1 of 1 files [■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■]

files with errors:

.jpg (FileReader: unable to open read stream for .jpg)

-> 1 file(s) processed, 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

< press ENTER >

TarVanimelde commented 3 years ago

The program does not have control over the shell's command line expansion. My understanding is that on Linux, expansion is done automatically, but on Windows, it is not. I can look into a Windows-specific implementation as described in

https://anadoxin.org/blog/enabling-globbing-in-a-console-win32-application.html/