OpenEuphoria

RE: Reading from Network Drive

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

cklester wrote:
> 
> 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?! :)
> 

Are you asking me?  I have no idea since I can't get it to work either.  
However, in your case I'd at least try:
dir("\\\\winxp1\\templates") or dir("\\\\winxp1\\templates\\") before 
deciding it doesn't work.

-- Brian