OpenEuphoria

RE: Reading from Network Drive

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Aug 19, 2004
• 817 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>\\")
> 
> 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...

I'm on a Win 2000 box and can't get a dir("\\winxp1\templates") from
a WinXP box using Euphoria. However, dir at the command prompt works fine.

So what's up with that?! :)

-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/