issue with ddefine on win2k3

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 21 May 2007 16:30:28 -0400):

> I don't get this.
>
> I have some existing files in f:/filepro on a Win2K3 system.  I can go
> into them with dclerk, I can go into them with ddefine.
>
> Using the same exact env vars (I'm coming from the same menu), I get the
> following when trying to create a new file:
>
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
>
> Cannot open file.
> //filepro/test/map: Error Number -1
> Windows error #53
> The network path was not found.
>
> ...Yes, and of course it doesn't exist -yet-, ddefine is supposed to
> create it.  If it's complaining about the directory not existing, well,
> it was supposed to take care of that as well (it isn't...the directory
> doesn't exist), and it's also complaining about the wrong thing, then.

Take a good look at the filename in the error message.  Then look at
it again.  What do you notice about how Windows will treat that name?

[...]
> Windows 2003 Server, fP 5.0.14DN9
>
> PFDSK=f
> PFDATA=/
> PFDIR=
>
> Actual database directory:  f:/filepro

Given that filePro needs the map/screens/prc/etc. formats in the
$PFDATA$PFDIR/filepro/filename directory, what is wrong with the
setting of PFDATA?

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