Thank you very much, Josh. This worked. The backward slashes were the problem. I had tried the quote part earlier, but even that did not work because of the backward slashes.
Is there somewhere I can document this for other newbies facing the same issue? Again, thank you very much. On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 09:25 +0530, Raj K wrote: > > Since it is in windows - I could not find any specific file permission > > mechanisms similar to linux. (This is my first foray in windows - so I > > am a newbie there too ) > > The computer is not in a network. So, through googling, I found that > > to share it, we have to move it to > > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\ - which I did. > > > > But even that did not help - as mentioned in the first mail. > > Try using forward slashes in your path: > testdb=# \i c:/testdb.txt > > And if you have spaces, enclose the path in quotation marks: > # \i 'C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Documents/DB/testdb.txt' > > > > If you could help me on this I would be much obliged.. > > > > Regards > > Raj > > - Josh Williams > > >
