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  1. Article: 14103 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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  3. From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
  5. Subject: Re: Dealing with '\' char in strings of file locations
  6. Date: 14 Feb 2003 10:06:49 -0500
  7. Organization: Columbia University
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  16.  
  17. In article <b2i0it$lfs$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
  18. Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
  19. : The hostname portion of the UNC path must use backslashes.  They cannot be 
  20. : replaced with forward slashes.  When command quoting is ON, you must 
  21. : represent it as
  22. : 
  23. :   \\\\hostname\\dir\\subdir\\file.txt
  24. : 
  25. : or 
  26. : 
  27. :   \\\\hostname\\dir/subdir/file.txt
  28. : 
  29. Right.
  30.  
  31. To clarify: the slash reversal was only to simplify subsequent string
  32. manipulation, in this case extraction of the subdirectory and filename
  33. >from  the UNC.  (Exercise for the reader: try it without reversing the
  34. slashes :-)
  35.  
  36. If you wanted to actually use a UNC you had read from a file (e.g. into
  37. a macro variable called "line"), you would do:
  38.  
  39.   assign unc \freplace(\m(line),\\,\\\\)
  40.  
  41. This would give:
  42.  
  43.   \\\\hostname\\dir\\subdir\\file.txt
  44.  
  45. - Frank
  46.