On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> I hope this isn't an insulting question, but does drive D: exist on that
>>> machine?
>>
>> Yes, it definitely does! I'd expect setwd("d:/") to give an error if it
>> didn't
>
> What is the file system? I seem to recall that the top directory of a
> (V)FAT drive is somehow special, so setwd'ing to it might put a lock
> on it. Not that I know what I'm talking about, but Windows is
> notorious for that sort of thing.
Indeed, but only in so far that the directory is non-extensible (e.g.
limited to 112 files). I thought it might be that a lock, but it is a
simple question of sometimes mis-parsing paths with drives in them.
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