OpenEuphoria

RE: Reading from Network Drive

• Posted by Rolf Schröder <Rolf.Schroeder at desy.de> Aug 19, 2004
• 488 views

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

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