What does the \\? mean? Is there a reference you can send me about the exact 
syntax f these filenames?


> On Mar 24, 2022, at 12:21 AM, Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
> 
> I think I know what's going on here. At some point, we started recognizing 
> some "REST" like filename structures as ways to communicate parameters to 
> procedural image generators, and so I bet the "?" is throwing it off. I will 
> investigate.
> 
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2022, at 9:23 AM, haggi <ha...@haggi.de <mailto:ha...@haggi.de>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> we just encountered a problem working with maktetx and windows unc paths.
>> We use UNC path notation for accessing the files in our network like this:
>> 
>> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx \\produktion\dfs\images\Raumplan.png
>> 
>> This works great. But sometimes the pathnames are too long and our usual 
>> solution was to use a windows naming convention:
>> 
>> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx 
>> \\?\UNC\produktion\dfs\very...long...path\Raumplan.png
>> 
>> This can be tested locally with this lines:
>> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test1.tx \\?\C:\image.png
>> maketx.exe -o C:\TextureCache\test2.tx C:\image.png
>> 
>> The error message we get is:
>> ImageInput::create() called with malformed filename
>> 
>> Now comes the interesting part:
>> Since we use the maketx from Arnold renderer, I only have these two versions 
>> to compare but:
>> 
>> This was not a problem in maketx from OIIO 1.7.7
>> 
>> It is a problem in the version of OIIO 2.1 (or earlier somtime between 1.7.7 
>> and 2.1)
>>  
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> haggi
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