RE: Reading from Network Drive

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OtterDad wrote:
> 
> could be an XP thing - i use NT and i do network dirs() literally 
> hundreds of times each day - make sure you quadruple backslash the 
> system name, i.e.  \\<name-goes-here> needs to read 
> a=dir("\\\\<name-goes-here>\\")
> 
> Yours, OtterDad
> 

Must be an XP thing then because I get -1 whether I do 
dir("\\\\server\\share") or dir("\\\\server\\share\\")

but "dir \\server\share" at cmd prompt works just fine...

-- Brian

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