It works for me:

>> dir \\mathworks\public\Loren_Shure

.                                      xxx
..

–Loren

dir('\\myNet\myDir')

it does not work.

I gave you my recommendations above. It depends on what the path is on the other operating system. Split the path up so you use filesep, pathsep, etc.

–Loren

You should recode them to use pathsep, etc. and not be so tightly bound to absolute paths. Some of your functions, if you have them, might take pieces of their paths as part of the input arguments, should that make sense.

–loren

Many Nerds won’t be returning. Some old timers I remember from last year, people like Trenchcoat Mafia, Silk Dragon Shirt, probably won’t be coming back next year.
Spamming blogs I put their names up, immortalizing them, if only until the blog owner erases everything::::
1. Trenchcoat Mafia
2. Silk Dragon Shirt
3. The Distinguished English Gentleman
4. Beta Nerd, and of course
5. Rosie The Transsexual
Rosie’s original name was just Rosie, due to his rosie cheeks. They shared he has a high level of knowledge, a tactic the gods employ to create a false sense of security. This of course is the segment which they dump so many transsexuals into.
I too enjoy irony, and therefore Rosie has now become Rosie The Transsexual.
Who else has a nickname in the NerdRoom?

I’d like to remind you many of the people in the NerdRoom are good men. I hope this is reflected in what they are allowed to learn and the progress they’re allowed to make.
I’d also like to remind you their predecessors, REAL nerds from a generation ago who fill the computer swap meet, are WONDERFUL men, and since I likely won’t be going again I want to remember them as well.

Actually the comparison of the two is a testiment to the devolution of society, which will be used as justification for the Apocalypse:::
Today’s nerds are NOT wonderful men. They grew up with the internet and many consider pornography as an acceptable vice. They gamble freely, enjoy evil imagry in video games, and this issue is a microcosim of our deterioration.

filesep is still useful, especially if you might be using drive letters as part of your path on a PC. / has been the canonical file separator in MATLAB for as long as I can remember (but my memory does fade on some of these things these days!). It was even more crucial when VMS was around for the VAX and the olden days for the Mac OS.

–loren

cd ../dir1/dir2

or

cd dir3/dir4

works on both Windows and Linux, but

cd ..\dir1\dir2

cd dir3\dir4

works only on Windows. The “/” also works where other filenames are expected (opening files, the load command, and so on). So “/” works just fine on any platform; MATLAB must make the obvious modification internally, which is The Right Thing To Do. I recall that in some MATLAB version that “/” didn’t work in Windows, and now it does.

As one who writes code that is supposed to port to any MATLAB, Windows/Linux/Mac/etc, this is a welcome fix.

So do we really need filesep anymore? Just use “/”. If this is the case, then the “doc filesep” should be updated to suggest using “/” as the platform-independent file separator.

This doesn’t apply to names like C:\whatever, which will always remain singularly Windows-ish.

persistent mypath
if isempty(mypath)
mypath=strrep(which(‘wtcsignif’),’wtcsignif.m’,”);
end

wtcsignif is called from many different paths, but i want it to always use its own directory as the cache directory. Here mfilename and fileparts would be better.

My example is from here:
http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/research/waveletcoherence/