Linux style pathnames for Visual Basic text files

[newguy9]

My Visual Basic program (running on an NT client) needs to create and read text files stored on a Linux server.

The problem is that my VB program crashes when I try to use the standard Open statement with a pathname of the form:
//servername/directoryname$/filename
(the $ is part of the directory name)

How can I make it understand the pathname?

Many thanks for any help.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I would have thought that should work as long as the linux server is running samba and has such a share. However, I would think the unc would be the same as for a win share, i.e. with backslashes . Can you link to that share ? e.g.

net use x: \\servername\directoryname$
dir x:

When you get it working remember that text files on linux have only a x'0A' as the linefeed whereas DOS/Windows text files have two chars, i.e. CRLF or x'0D0A'.

Hope this helps