What paths are actually generated on the win98 box? That's going to be
your best clue as to what is failing. 

Does "getOsDirectory()" return the same path format in both cases?


> Hi there
> 
> I have made an installer using Director 7 and Budapi to basically copy
a
> text file from a cdrom to the system folder.
> 
> Now the following code works fine on Win 2000 Professional but on my
Win
> 98
> Sony Vaio it is not working - the error message I am receiving is
invalid
> Destination file. Can anyone see why this is so and if there is a
> difference
> between how the two operating systems path files, can anyone suggest a
way
> to detect the OS and have a case statement to include the appropriate
code
> for each OS.
> 
> 
>   set app_Path=the applicationPath
> 
>   set default_Path=getOsDirectory()
> 
>   set sourcefile=app_Path & "\" & "Qbase.txt"
> 
>   set destfile=default_Path & "\" & "Qbase.txt"
> 
>   baCopyFile(sourcefile, destfile , "Always" )
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!!
> 
> Paul


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