Re: Specifying path for report creation w/o using drive letter

[Krishnan Sarangarajan <ksaranga@RUAN.COM>]

Zubin - We have had problems similar to yours, at RUAN. In such cases, we
have done the following :

If a drive letter can be used, the process is trivial. Otherwise, we would
do as follows :

        let $fname = '\\NTSERVER2\CIGNA\' || 'TEST.TXT'
        open $fname as 10 for writing record=14:fixed

You may be able to use NEW-REPORT '\\NTSERVER2\CIGNA\TEST.LIS', for example.
I am not sure if it would work or not as I have never personally tried it.

Sincerely,
Krishnan

Ruan Transportation Management Systems
(515) 245-5655 [P]
(515) 247-2065 [F]
ksaranga@ruan.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Zubin Shroff [mailto:zshroff@DTTUS.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 10:33 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
Subject: Specifying path for report creation w/o using drive letter


     Hi all,

     We have an sqr that creates report files using the 'NEW-REPORT'
     command. We need to specify the path of the network directory, but do
     not want to use the drive letter since different users may have it
     mapped to different drives. For example, if my Windows explorer shows

     IS on 'Ent1\Data1' (O:)

     how would I specify a folder on the O: drive without hard-coding the
     drive letter in the sqr? I tried to use

     NEW-REPORT 'Ent1\Data1\IS\myfolder\report.lis'

     but sqr was unable to find the directory. When I use
     NEW-REPORT 'O:\myfolder\report.lis', it works fine.

     Any input will be appreciated.