Date:         Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:27:28 -0400
Reply-To:     Clinton.Rickards@PHARMA.COM
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From:         Clint Rickards <Clinton.Rickards@PHARMA.COM>
Subject:      Re: DOS path names
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Very nice, John. I had forgotten about XCOPY's ability to do this.
 
Thanks...
 
Clint Rickards
BCDM
Purdue Pharma L.P.
100 Connecticut Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850-3590
(203) 854-7547
 
 
        -----Original Message-----
        From:   John Whittington [SMTP:medisci@POWERNET.COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, April 20, 1999 9:55 AM
        To:     SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
        Subject:        Re: DOS path names
 
        At 12:20 20/04/99 +1200, Mark Bodt wrote:
 
        >Looks like there is a difference across OSs which would mean
creating the
        >directories and sub-directories one at a time, and then only
creating them
        >if they don't exist. (you could use the fileexist() function for
this)
 
        There appears to be a viable 'workaround' in Win95 ....
 
        As we have all learned over the past few days, whilst the command:
 
           md "john whittington"
 
        ... will work under Win95, the following (which I gather works under
NT) ...
 
           md "john whittington\my subdirectory"
 
        ... does NOT work under Win95.  As Mark says, one would therefore
have to
        create a 'long name' pilepath 'step by step' under Win95, including
checks
        for pre-existing directories/subdirectories.
 
        However, what DOES seem to work under Win95 is ....
 
           xcopy file "c:\john whittington\my subdirectory\yet another one"
 
        ... the result being the creation of the full desired filepath, with
'long
        names'.  A further advantage of this method is that there is no
problem if
        the filepath, or part of it, already exists.
 
        Hence, if one is prepared to copy some sort of file (which could be
a
        'dummy' one made for the purpose) into the newly created
directory/tree, it
        seemingly *can* be done with Win95 (and I presume also Win98).
 
        ... just a little discovery, that folk might wish to play with!
 
        Regards,
 
        John
 
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