thanks Simon, that worked, why is this?  and if  I wanted to send this to 
someone else and it had the // would it NOT work for them?

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Davies" <simon.james.dav...@googlemail.com>
To: "General Discussion of SQLite Database" <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [sqlite] output problem


On 1 June 2010 12:52, Mark <m.co...@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> trying to use .output to write a small text file, and send it to the C 
> drive. It looks like this:
>
> .read UnPop.sql
> .output C:\done.txt
> .dump dbinfo
> .quit
>
> works fine if I send it to the E drive, but as soon as I try anywhere on 
> the C, whether to the drive itself, or a folder on C, it just doesn't work 
> at all,
> nothing is created. I do need it it to go to at least the C drive, and 
> preferably a folder on C

looks like Windoze - double up your '\' chars,

i.e.

.output C:\\done.txt

>
> mtia,
> Mark

Regards,
Simon
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