Adrian,
Out of curiosity, why do you need a macro name with a colon?
Friedrich
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Adrian Sayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am having trouble creating a macro with a colon.
>
> I have just started working in two locations and in essence the server
> name is a little different in each place.
>
> in essence i want to delcare a macro which is `R:' followed by a string
>
> like this:
>
> local R: "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder"
>
> di "`R:'"
> \\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder
>
> however i get this error message
>
> "\\myserver.ac.uk\myfolder not allowed
>
> I know that local macros have extended functions which use colons is
> there any way of getting round this?
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