[DGD]Newbie question?

[James J. Bennett]

I got it to work (and I understand about the slashes and all, no matter how 
I tried them it didn't seem to work).  I found that the tmp file 
(seemingly) has to be in the DGD folder in order to work.

In any case all is well now....thanks.

JB

At 05:27 PM 5/31/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Quoting Greg Lewis from 00:04, 2001-06-01:
>
> > > >On Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 12:26 AM, J. Bennett wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>fatal error cannot create swap file ../tmp/swap
> >
> > Erm shouldn't you be using a Window's style path then if you're using
> > Win2k?  I.e. c:\tmp\swap?  Admittedly I've never tried DGD on Windows
> > other than other cygwin (which does understand Unix style paths).
>
>I have checked on my Windows machine and it seems that DGD (version
>1.1.119 and probably all later versions) understands backslashes as
>well as forward slashes in the directory parameter.
>
>(If you want to use backslashes, however, remember to escape each of
>them with an additional backslash as this parameter is an LPC string.
>That is, use "..\\tmp\\swap", not "..\tmp\swap".)
>
>// Mikael / Elemel



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