Try
local dir F:\0_stat.data\0_homenet.data\0_freshmen\transition\
di " `dir' "
di `dir'
to see where you have gone wrong.
On 3/4/06, Robert Kraut <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to create a macro to refer to the directory where data and
> files are stored, so I can move do files easily between computers. I
> define the dir macro as:
> local dir F:\0_stat.data\0_homenet.data\0_freshmen\transition\
> But when I try to refer to dir's values, I get an error, as if the dir
> value is broken at the dot included in a directory names:
>
> dis `dir'
> data\0_freshmen\transition\ invalid name
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