VB Forum / COM / March 2008

Are you programming in C++?

If so, you should be using:

lpFilename="L:\\XYZ.tmp";

and, of course, you have posted in a VB forum. C++ questions are best posted in microsoft.public.vc.language

HTH

Brian

Have you checked whether it's actually using a file called XYZ.tmp, or just
L (or even L.tmp)? Although not widely known, NTFS files support something
named "streams", e.g. XYZ.tmp:astream. I wonder if the colon (and anything
following it) is getting consumed that way.

Streams was a neat idea that was never really finished in Windows. I believe
Office uses the mechanism to store document properties such as author,
title, etc.

If you've never heard of them, give it a try. Go into a CMD window and type
'notepad x.tmp:str'. Put some text in. Save it and go back in with just
'notepad x.tmp' (no text!). Go back in again with the original x.tmp:str
(text there again!). Do a DIR and you'll only see x.tmp.

   Tony Proctor