Adrian Sayers <[email protected]>:
Don't you just want
local r "//myserver.ac.uk/"
dir `r'Research
dir `r'Stats
? I.e. there's no reason to put a colon in the name of the macro, and
it is not allowed in any case.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Adrian Sayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working in two locations, and in one location i have complete
> acess to the whole server, and the file path starts R:Research in the
> other location which i work a few day a week the path starts R:Stats I
> thought the easiest way to solve this was to specify the server name
> instead and this would solve all my problems. So i was going to change
> the R: to the name of the server. This would solve all my problems.
>
> Thanks
> Adrian
>
>
> On 21/04/2008, Friedrich Huebler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Adrian,
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why do you need a macro name with a colon?
> >
> >
> > Friedrich
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Sayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am having trouble creating a macro with a colon.
> > >
> > > I have just started working in two locations and in essence the server
> > > name is a little different in each place.
> > >
> > > in essence i want to delcare a macro which is `R:' followed by a string
> > >
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > local R: "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder"
> > >
> > > di "`R:'"
> > > \\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder
> > >
> > > however i get this error message
> > >
> > > "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder not allowed
> > >
> > > I know that local macros have extended functions which use colons is
> > > there any way of getting round this?
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