hi
 > BM> BD> or,  in a Microsoft/Lantastic networking environment:
 > BM> BD> NET USE : \Server_Name\Share_Name\Directory_Path BM>
 >                           ^^
\\server_name\share_name
^ two backslashes typed here :-)
share_name is the name of a shared dir or device. you don't need/can't use a 
path here
 > More confusion has arisen....apparently the Searchlight BBS
 > software in use where I post uses the backslash character as a
 > control code for colors and other functions.  Therefore it
 > "eats" backslashes at times and does not pass them on.  Hence,
 > the original message may have had the two backslashes as
it did :-)
 > required, but I only got to see one of them when it passed
 > through Searchlight.  Similarly, my reply, in which I typed TWO
 > backslashes, may have reached you with only one...or none.
one
maybe you can escape them using backslashbackslashbackslashbackslash for just 
two of them.
Leon
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