Microsoft KB Archive/221722

= FIX: C0000005 Fatal Error Using DIRECTORY("\\\dirname") =

Article ID: 221722

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q221722



SYMPTOMS
Issuing the DIRECTORY function where the directory name argument contains three backslashes under Windows NT causes Visual FoxPro 6.0 to generate the following error:

Fatal error: Exception code=C0000005

Under the same circumstances, Visual FoxPro 5.0 produces an error similar to the following under Windows NT:

An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

vfp.exe

Exception: access violation (0xc0000005),Address 0x0049b575

Under Windows 9x, Visual FoxPro executes the function without error.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed



Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * Run the following code from the Command Window

? DIRECTORY("\\\bogusdir")

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbxbase kbvs600sp3fix KB221722

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