Dos FileNames

[Kenneth Brody]

Bob Stockler wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:19:37PM -0500, Art Moore wrote:
> | Jeroen,
> |
> | Thank you for your response.  Your suggestion of using two slashes instead of one worked to the extent that the error message is properly syntaxed.  It still tells me that the file does not exist and that just is not correct.  I have tried other directories and so far the only one that works is a single directory that has only 8 characters.
> |
> | Hoping to get some other responses...
> 
> You got a good one from Ken Brody:  switch to using forward slashes.
> 
> filePro handles pathnames using forward slashes on Windows.  Try it.

All that will do is keep the error message from getting mangled.

He still hasn't answered my questions:

> 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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