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   Kenneth to jim.giner@suny.edu   
   Re: Trouble running BAT file from P9...?   
   18 Dec 08 09:00:07   
   
   From: usenet@soleSPAMLESSassociates.com   
      
   On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:15:48 -0500, "Jim Giner"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Then if you're calling program is on the same box as the bat file, you   
   >should only need to reference the drive letter and the path (folders) and   
   >NOT any "machine" id (unc name).  Sounds like it would be just c:\\ten.bat   
   >in this case which as tony says is not good practice.  You may not know this   
   >(and it may no longer be true!), but in the old dos days there was a hard   
   >limit on how much you could put into the root folder of a drive.  Hence the   
   >practice of puttting things into folders.   
      
   Hello again,   
      
   Well, I have it working now (and will move the bat file to a   
   sub-folder).   
      
   Many thanks to all,   
   --   
   Kenneth   
      
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