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using SPAWN to work with Windows NT network directories [message #25247]

Fri, 01 June 2001 12:28

differentiable
Messages: 5
Registered: June 2001

Junior Member

i'm trying to use spawn to create a directory on our Windows network
server.
i can do this locally with the following commands:

IDL> cd, 'c:\temp'
IDL> spawn, 'md mydirname'

will make a directory 'c:\temp\mydirname'. When I try this across the
network
however, eg.,

IDL> cd, '\\Devsrvr\Users\me\'
IDL> spawn, 'md mydirname'

i don't get anything. I can use cd in combination with findfile()
across the network, but i can't get spawn to do anything for me on
devsrvr. Any ideas?
Thanks! Lucas

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Re: using SPAWN to work with Windows NT network directories [message #25360 is a reply to message #25247]

Tue, 05 June 2001 08:34

differentiable
Messages: 5
Registered: June 2001

Junior Member

davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote in message news:<MPG.1585c12370f0d320989e22@news.frii.com>...
> Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz) writes:
>
>> As to *why* the CMD shell cannot use a UNC working directory, I have no
>> idea. Nor can I recall right now why I haven't switched to Linux yet.
>
> Installation nightmares, no doubt. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Thanks All! Mapping a network drive works. No way I'd be working on
a windows machine if I could afford a Linux IDL license! Lucas

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Re: using SPAWN to work with Windows NT network directories [message #25369 is a reply to message #25247]

Mon, 04 June 2001 16:01

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz) writes:

> As to *why* the CMD shell cannot use a UNC working directory, I have no
> idea. Nor can I recall right now why I haven't switched to Linux yet.

Installation nightmares, no doubt. :-(

Cheers,

David

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Re: using SPAWN to work with Windows NT network directories [message #25423 is a reply to message #25360]

Thu, 07 June 2001 09:36

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Lucas Miller wrote:
>
> davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote in message news:<MPG.1585c12370f0d320989e22@news.frii.com>...
>> Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz) writes:
>>
>>> As to *why* the CMD shell cannot use a UNC working directory, I have no
>>> idea. Nor can I recall right now why I haven't switched to Linux yet.
>>
>> Installation nightmares, no doubt. :-(
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>
> Thanks All! Mapping a network drive works. No way I'd be working on
> a windows machine if I could afford a Linux IDL license! Lucas

If you are using a floating license you can switch between both
platforms
and some others.

regards
Reimar

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