Interesting Lisp Question

I am trying to load a custom lisp routine on the startup of autocad. I have
added the string to the acad.lsp file. When I try to path to the file on my
network I get an error on loading, but if I set it local it loads fine. The
interesting part is that the lisp routine that will only load on the local
drive will still call other lisp routine from the network drive. Any ideas.
the only thing I can come up with right now is that there is a local setting
that autocad does not like to go look on the network for anything on
loading. Any body with any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

HT

 

Post your code.

Are you doing:

Something like (load \\\\server\\share\\doit.lsp) ??

or (load "//server/share/doit.lsp") ??

or (load "Q:\doit.lsp")

or ????

 

(load "server:/folder/lisp/custom.lsp")

Post your code.

Are you doing:

Something like (load \\\\server\\share\\doit.lsp) ??

or (load "//server/share/doit.lsp") ??

or (load "Q:\doit.lsp")

or ????

 

try

(load "server:\\folder\\lisp\\custom.lsp")

 

(load "server:\\folder\\lisp\\custom.lsp")

There shouldn't be any difference between using / or \\ as a delimiter. I
wonder if Heath is trying to use the actual server name or a mapped drive
letter, as RK asked?

For instance, I can use either (load
"//servername/folder/.../lisp/custom.lsp") or (load
"Q:/.../lisp/custom.lsp") if Q: is mapped to //servername/folder/. In either
case I can substitute \\ for each / and they still work.

 

Hmmmm... maybe I need to learn something...
What is the colon ) for?

(load "//server/share/lisp/doit")
-or-
(load "\\\\server\\share\\lisp\\doit")

have always worked for me.

 

the load is loading to a mapped drive letter on server. The colon is in
front of the server drive letter. Server is replacing the drive letter
(security reasons).

Hmmmm... maybe I need to learn something...
What is the colon ) for?

(load "//server/share/lisp/doit")
-or-
(load "\\\\server\\share\\lisp\\doit")

have always worked for me.

 

the load is loading to a mapped drive letter on server. The colon is in
front of the server drive letter. Server is replacing the drive letter
(security reasons).

I'm guessing the drive letter is somewhere between E to Z. Someone is
paranoid. ;^)

 

LOL

 

all being what it is you know that it is a drive letter. I jumped on this
news group in hopes that someone might have an actual intelligent answer for
me. If anyone has any insight for me I would greatly appreciate it.

LOL

 

Just for grins, add that path to your support file search path and then try:
(load "custom.lsp")

 

My point was that, if the issue is a typo, by posting a bogus
because-of-security-issues load string, you make debugging more difficult.

--
R. Robert Bell


all being what it is you know that it is a drive letter. I jumped on this
news group in hopes that someone might have an actual intelligent answer for
me. If anyone has any insight for me I would greatly appreciate it.

LOL