UNC Path to photos on iPhone on Windows XP

UNC Path to photos on iPhone on Windows XP I would like to manipulate (copy and/or move) the photos I took with my iPhone from the command line or a Perl script. But when I plug the iPhone, it doesn't get a drive letter: in 'My Computer', it's displayed in the 'Scanners and Cameras' group, instead of the 'Devices with Removable Storage'.
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"You can only retrieve the photos from the iPhone, you cannot write to it. Further more, iPhone identifies itself to Windows as a PTP device, and hence

PTP does not specify a way for objects
to be stored – it is a communication
protocol. Nor does it specify a
transport layer.
Images on digital cameras are
generally stored as files on a mass
storage device, such as a memory card,
which is formatted with a file system,
most commonly FAT or FAT 32, which may
be laid out as per the Design rule for
Camera File system (DCF)
specification. However, none of these
are required, as PTP abstracts from
the underlying representation.

So in short I don't think its possible to assign a UNC path to it.

Ed:

On further searching I found a software, PTPDrive. I haven't tested it personally, you can try your luck."