Article ID: 128718
Article Last Modified on 11/17/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q128718
SYMPTOMS
When you run Visual FoxPro on a Novell Netware shell, the SET DEFAULT or CD commands yield an "Invalid Path or File Name" error message.
CAUSE
The NET.CFG or SHELL.CFG Novell Netware configuration files, do not contain a SHOW DOTS statement. SHOW DOTS displays "." and ".." directory listings for network directories and is OFF by default. As these entries represent the current and previous directories, navigating along the directory structure can be difficult if they are not available.
RESOLUTION
Include the following statement in your SHELL.CFG or NET.CFG:
SHOW DOTS=ON
STATUS
The error is not a bug in Visual FoxPro; it is the result of the Novell Netware architecture.
MORE INFORMATION
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
With no SHOW DOTS command or with SHOW DOTS = OFF, type the following in the Command window:
SET DEFA TO <valid drive letter>
Then type any of the following commands:
SET DEFA TO ..
SET DEFA TO ..\<valid subdirectory>
SET DEFA TO .\<valid subdirectory>
SET DEFA TO \<valid subdirectory>
REFERENCES
For more information about the SHOW DOTS statement, refer to your Novell Netware documentation.
Netware is manufactured by Novell, Inc., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.
For more information about Novell and Windows, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
81486 Novell SHELL.CFG and Windows
Additional query words: VFoxWin novel
Keywords: kbnetwork KB128718
