issue with ddefine on win2k3

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Mon, 21 May 2007 16:54:12 -0400):

> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:49:05PM -0400, Kenneth Brody achieved the
> spontaneous
> generation of the following:
> > > //filepro/test/map: Error Number -1
> >
> > 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?
>
> I noticed that...except it works with files that already exists so I
> didn't want to tamper with it.  It's inconsistent about how it acts.
>
> > 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?
>
> Emptied PFDATA and it worked fine.  Thanks!

As long as the current drive is always the drive on which the filePro
maps/screens/etc. reside, you'll be okay.  Otherwise, you'll probably
want to explicitly tell filePro by using PFDATA=F:.

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