OpenEuphoria

RE: Reading from Network Drive

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 17, 2004
• 511 views

cklester wrote:
> 
> Guillermo Bonvehi wrote:
> > 
> > I usually connected it as a shared drive, i don't know how it's called 
> > on English,
> > but is basically assing the shared folder a driver letter like Z:, then 
> > access the
> > files like open("Z:\\lala.txt","r")
> 
> I think you're talking about drive mapping, and I didn't want to have to
> do that if I didn't have to do that. :)

Your choices are to either map the drive ("net use z: 
\\WinXP1\templates") to use Euphoria's dir().  You could do this 
programatically using system() (and later delete the mapping with "net 
use z: \delete").  Or you could use Euman's "alternative to dir()":  
dir2("\\\\WinXP1\\templates").

-- Brian