>Hi All
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>I have an app that tries to load a PDF file into an IE control embedded within a form. I setup the complete path name to the file using:
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>  TPDF_FILE = SYS(5) + SYS(2003) + "\adobe\" + ALLTRIM( lcFileName )
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>Which gives, as an example, a file name like this;
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>"C:\my_apps_folder_name\adobe\the_pdf_filename.pdf
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>This normally works fine. But now at one client this returns the following for TPDF_FILE:
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>"file://servername//my_apps_folder_name//adobe/the_pdf_filename.pdf"
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>This then causes a failure in the IE control becuase it cannot find the pdf file to navigate to. How can I solve this so that I get the correct drive and path to my application folder that IE can use to navigate to?
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>Thanks
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>Jos

SYS(2003) returns a single backslash if you are at the root.

TPDF_FILE = SYS(5) + addbs(SYS(2003)) + "adobe\" + ALLTRIM( lcFileName )