At 03:01 PM 18/02/97 -0800, Antony Bakke wrote: >We have an HP 340 on one of our FACScans. A researcher, who is familiar with >PCs, decided to name his data files with a slash in the name (eg. \data000). >Now these files are inaccessible: cannot be read, copied or renamed. Does >anyone know of a solution? Are you sure the researcher is really familiar with PCs? In the PC environment the backslash "\" character is used as the directory path separator, as in C:\FRED\BLOGGS\DATAFILE.001, so it makes absolutely no sense to use it in a filename. Apart from fiddle fingers, you have at least two separate problems. I'm sure I can help, but I need a bit of clarification. I'll e-mail you directly rather than take up space in the mailing list. Cheers, Joseph. -- Joseph Webster Flow Cytometry Facility Centenary Institute
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