Subj : Re: Creating Full Folders
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Jeff Kish <jeff.kish@mro.com>
Date : Fri Oct 24 2003 04:55 pm

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:08:31 +0100, "A Davis" <abcde.davis@ic24.net>
wrote:

>Hello All
>
>Please can anyone advise how to create Folders over a network?
>
>Locally, since mkdir() only works within the current Folder, I've written a
>function which creates folders along the chain:-
>Eg To create C: \ folder1 \ folder2 \ folder3
>it firstly makes C: the current Drive,
>then creates folder1 & makes it the current Folder,
>then creates folder2 & makes it the current Folder,
>etc
>
>This works ok on Local Drives, but fails across a network.
>
>Eg a network folder might be:-
>\\ networkpc\folder1
>with two \s at the start & no colon.
>
>Since setdisk() takes an integer for the drive letter, I don't know where to
>start, whether to change to the Network drive or whatever.
>
>Please can anyone help?
>Regards Al.
>
I'll bet you need to step out of the c++ library and into the windows
API for that one. Try maybe createDirectory, etc...
HTH,
Jeff Kish

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