revlet works locally - fails on server

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Tue Nov 24 07:21:37 EST 2009


On 23.11.09 at 23:20 -0500 Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com apparently wrote:
>Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> apparently replied:
>>  Such a code will work only if your server runs windows and your
>>  revlet has write access at the root level. It might be better to use
>>  one of the "magic" folders for a given OS.
>>
>>  Robert
>
>Why would the revlet be writing to the root level of the 'server'? From
>what I've seen, scripts in stacks designed to read/write to a local C:/
>drive still do so. Aren't revlets downloaded and executed locally rather
>than on the server?
>
>Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
>

Sorry, I meant the computer on which this code executes. The 
folderpath you use is windows-specific and creates a folder at the 
top level of the drive. That will not work for every user.

Robert



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