I have an automation script that, among other things, creates directories and tosses files in them. It works fine on 3 machines but fails to create the directories on two others and I haven't a clue why. I've done it with both the native mkdir and the system mkdir call. Neither works on the two other machines. We're all running the same OS (WinXP). I can run on my machine against their work and it's fine so it's not a fluky name issue. Doesn't matter if the mkdir is running on their own machine or a server so it's not a permissions problem. (it fails if I log onto their machine and run it) Here's a couple lines from the script that both fail (or is it something in their OS?). Oh and the variables are setting properly when printed to the screen.
#
else { system ("mkdir", "C:\\automation");
#
system ("mkdir", "$bomdir\\$bomfoldname");

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

In reply to Dir Create by rawsr71

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