[mg84516] Re: [mg84514] small init.m problem

[DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>]

The directory name should be

SetDirectory["c:\\Backup\\Mma"]

I have no idea how it could work at all, without the double-slash (which  
means ONE slash).

Bobby

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:18:01 -0600, Jerry <JLK2941 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm using V6.01 under XP.
>
> In order to get Mathematica to find files in by backup directory, I
> put the following in an init.m file in Docs and
> Settings\MyUserName\Application Data\Mathematica\Kernal :
>
> SetDirectory["c:\\Backup\Mma"]
>
> It seems to work nicely (it finds my files and outputs files
> into this directory by default) but every time I run a
> notebook I get the following in a Messages window:
>
> Syntax::stresc: Unknown string escape \M.
>
> It doesn't seem to hurt anything and I've been ignoring it
> for months -- but just for info, can someone please tell me
> what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.
>
>



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