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Probably because Tk doesn't understand UNC pathnames.

Or, rather, it Tk requires to use \\ instead of // in UNC pathes? Did you try to replace the forward slashes by backslashes?

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by momo33 (Beadle) on Sep 26, 2008 at 06:06 UTC
    I tried replacing / by \, but this is very tricky. It caused more problems than it solved.

    The path is provided by getcwd. Can I convert this into something Tk allways handles correctly?
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      I tried replacing / by \, but this is very tricky.

      Why tricky? You just need to do a 

      $dirname =~ tr(/)(\\);

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      I think this test is important, because at the moment, we still *guess* that UNC pathes with forward slashes are the problem, but we don't know for sure.

      You could just write a tiny example program and try out various styles for specifying a path to Tk functions...

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