>Can someone explain why a double backslash works when used to define a path?
>
>While assigning a value to for temp work folder, we accidentally got two back slashes assigned to a variable. Using the variable worked, so we didn't discover this for a while. Look:
>

>USE [sometable]
>lcprivdir = "c:\temp\"
>COPY TO lcprivdir + "\myfile.dbf"    && Results in c:\temp\\myfile.dbf
>DELETE FILE lcprivdir + "\myfile.dbf"
>
>OR even this way:
>lcmyfilevar = lcprivdir + "\myfile.dbf"  && lcmyfilevar = c:\temp\\myfile.dbf
>COPY TO lcmyfilevar
>

>
>I am really curious as to why the double back slash does not throw an error. Anyone have an idea? Or did I cut school the day this was explained?

look these:

? FULLPATH("win.ini","c:\window\system32")
? FULLPATH("win.ini","c:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\window\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\system32")
? FULLPATH("\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\win.ini","c:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\window\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\system32")
* look the time delay
? FULLPATH("win.ini","\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\window\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\system32")