OpenEuphoria

RE: Reading from Network Drive

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 19, 2004
• 491 views

Rolf Schr=F6der wrote:
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> Brian Broker wrote:
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> > OtterDad wrote:
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> > > could be an XP thing - i use NT and i do network dirs() literally=20
> > > hundreds of times each day - make sure you quadruple backslash the=
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> > > system name, i.e.  \\<name-goes-here> needs to read=20
> > > a=dir("\\\\<name-goes-here>\\")
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> > > Yours, OtterDad
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> > Must be an XP thing then because I get -1 whether I do=20
> > dir("\\\\server\\share") or dir("\\\\server\\share\\")
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> > but "dir \\server\share" at cmd prompt works just fine...
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> 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.
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> Have a nice day, Rolf
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> --

Interesting... here's my test program:

include file.e

? dir( "\\\\server\\share\\" )

I tested it with exwc.exe and ex.exe and both returned -1.  And it's not=
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a permissions thing because I'm Admin on the server in question and OS=20
'dir' works fine...

So what am I doing wrong?

-- Brian