From: "Niklas Aldergren" <niklas@swiss.se>
Subject: Re: UNC paths are not supported when including some custom mel scripts
   Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:37:11 -0400
Msg# 1336
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On 3 Jul 2006 06:58:03 -0000, Dylan Penhale <dylan@(email surpressed).au> wrote:
We are running some custom mel when we submit a rush job and we get
an error about UNC paths. I looked up the error and it appears to
have been fixed a long time ago around the time of NT I think.

Hi Dylan,

I can replicate the same error here on Windows XP SP2 and as I recall
this have always been the case for most of the command line tools --
they don't do UNC.

I think "fixed" here means "we added a registry key to suppress the
error", unfortunately.

Custom Mel:

//print windows username
string $WIN_Username = `system("echo %USERNAME%")`;
print ("\nCURRENT WINDOWS USER:\n" + $WIN_Username);

You can get to environment variables through $ENV in perl, so the above
could be changed to string $WIN_Username = $ENV{'username'} and you could avoid
the problem altogether.

/Niklas
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