RE: Reading from Network Drive
- Posted by Rolf Schröder <Rolf.Schroeder at desy.de> Aug 19, 2004
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Brian Broker wrote: > > 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... > It's not an XP thing! By the way: does it run under EXW (and not under EX)? All my progs are binded with 'bindw' and are running under XP. Have a nice day, Rolf -- ---------------------------------------------------- | Dr.Rolf Schröder | E B | | DESY MST-1 | C | | Notkestraße 85 | D | | D-22603 Hamburg | A | | Earth |-------------------------------| | Solar System | Phone : +49-40-8998-2628 | | Milky Way | Fax : +49-40-8994-2628 | | Local Group | mailto:Rolf.Schroeder at DESY.de | | Known Universe | http://adweb.desy.de/~rolf | ----------------------------------------------------