--- "James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This does not seem to work for me outside the PWD.
>
> Thus:
>
>
> > :LISTFILE W@,6
> > WELCOME.PUB.SYS
> > WS92LINK.PUB.SYS
> > :
> > :LISTFILE ./W@,6
> >  /SYS/PUB/WELCOME
> >  /SYS/PUB/WS92LINK

everything is good here....

> > :LISTFILE [log in to unmask],6
> > No match found for the pathname. (CIWARN 9043)

quite true -- you're mixing hfs and mpe syntax.  if you're going to use
slashes, then dots become part of the file name.  just think unix :-)

> > :LISTFILE ./W@\.PUB,6
> >               ^
> > Invalid character in HFS file name. (CIERR 932)

again true.  a backslash doesn't have any meaning within hfs naming
conventions.  (lockwords, you know :-)

>
> What I desire is to take a passed file name like:
>
> FILENAME.GROUP.ACCT and turn it into \ACCT\GROUP\FILENAME
>
> or just
>
> FILENAME and turn it into \CURACCT\CURGROUP\FILENAME

not a problem...but you do need to turn your slashes around :-)
(tain't windows :-)       - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
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