Dos FileNames

[Nancy Palmquist]

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...
>  
> Art

What version of filePro and OS are you working with?  The DOS versions 
or Win95 or older will only work with 8.3 filenames.

HINT:  display strings containing \ characters as follows:

if: string co chr("92")
then: msgbox xlate(string,chr("92"),"/")

This will make any string display correctly.  It will change all 
backslashes to forward slashes.  Allows for OS compatibility as well as 
good displays.
Nancy

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