Hi Tim; I get it. Thank you for your clear explanation and suggestion.
All the best Malkie > > Hi Malkie, > > You have to remember that VDos works with a virtualized file system, meaning > that programs > running inside VDos can only access drives and folders that you make > available to them in the > VDos configuration, and that VDos can be configured to access drives or > folders using drive > letters that are meaningful only within the scope of the VDos world. > > Specifically, the 'autoexec.txt' file in your VDos folder controls how your > VDos apps interact > with the outside world. If you want VDos apps to be able to write to drive > H:, you have to map > access to that drive by including a line in your autoexec.txt file that says: > > USE H: H:\ > > That now lets VDos apps access any folder and file on the H: drive (as long > as the folder/file > name conforms to the 8.3 specs). > > If you wanted to be more limiting in the access granted to VDos apps, you > could do something > like this instead: > > USE Q: H:\MSWord\Docs > > Then anytime DP running inside VDos needed to write to the real-world > H:\MSWord\Docs > folder, you would simply tell it to output to Q:\ and the output would > automatically get directed > by VDos to your mapped real-world folder. > > Tim Rude > > On 9/14/2014 4:54 PM, barmag wrote: > Hi Everyone; > > Can someone please help me figure this out? I'm using VDos for DP on my Win7 > 64 bit and it's > working beautifully, thanks a million to Gerard. > > My DP is in F:\DP26F\phonebk > WP51 is in F:\WP64\docs and Word is in H:\MSWord\Docs > > When I export from DP to WP or Word having entered H:\MSWord\Docs\test at the > destination > filename, I get "illegal path name -- path not found". > > If I enter F:\test as the filename, I'd find the file located in F:\DP26F. > > What do I insert in the destination filename to get it exported to WP or Word? > > Malkie > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
