>I'm doing this all the time, it works. Just surround it with quotes if it contains spaces:
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>cd "\\server\db\directory name with spaces"
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So that was probably the problem. I assume SET DEFAULT would have worked, as well.
I avoid spaces anyway, because of an age-old problem "EXE not found" (solved in SP4, if I remember correctly).
Hilmar.
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