Dos FileNames

[Kenneth Brody]

Art Moore wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Walter Vaughn who suggested I 'Google' filePro I have found a
> program that works very well for me called 'fpimport'.  It was a creation of
> Howard Wolowitz I believe.  Thank you Walter and Howard.
> 
> My only question is that I get an error when I try to run the program using
> the following existing path:
> 
> c:\MOBOLead\MOBOSaveActivity\Inbox\activity.csv
> 
> I get the following error EXACTLY as I have written it below:
> 
> c:MoboleadMobosaveactivitynboxtivity.csv  does not exist
> Make sure the drive letter and path are correct
> 
> The portion nbox is hi-lited.
> 
> The path exists and the file exists just as I listed at the outset.  I have
> increased the field size of the pathname within the fpimport program to 50
> characters which should be long enough.
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What version of filePro are you using, and how/where does the error message
appear exactly?  (It looks like the message is interpreting the backslashes
within the filename as showcodes.  If you use forwardslashes in the filename
instead, that won't happen.)

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