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Gosh,
you are right, thank you.
...stil,l if version 4 is on, it works with three quotation marks

Ottavio

It looks that it works if you place three quoation marks on each side

%wdir="""\\teseo.dt.tesoro.it\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database"""
cd %wdir

... you tell me why :-) !

thanks a lot anyway

Ottavio

version 4 compatibility is on

Let me add that the text "\teseo\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database" is colored in red, so apparently eviews considers it as a string however when it comes to running the programm it does not work like that and it stops at \tes...

I'm very sorry, I meant quotation marks i.e. this simbol "

Hi there, there is something that is driving us mad and hope you can help running the two following programming lines (lines 5 and 6) gives an error message %wdir="\teseo\gestione\DIREZIONE 1\Ufficio II\Apri e lavora\Patto di Stabilità\codici_Eviews\Creazione database" cd %wdir The error m...