Re: Can pandoc convert using UNC paths on Windows?

[Philip Hodder <phil-jvooPmwWovGx7wk7FZxnQA@public.gmane.org>]

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I don't know how Haskell processes file paths but have you tried escaping 
the slashes? E.g.

pandoc "\\\\network\path\to\file.md"

or even using Unix like path separators:

pandoc "\\\\network/path/to/file.md"

Phil

On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 9:34:53 PM UTC, Peter Tirrell wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run pandoc, on Windows, against a file on a network share.  
> I'm calling the executable within a Powershell prompt, but the same 
> behavior happens in CMD.  I have tried calling 
>
> pandoc "\\network\path\to\file.md"
>
> and changing to the UNC folder in Powershell and calling
>
> pandoc .\file.md
>
> and get the same error message: "openBinaryFile: does not exist (no such 
> file or directory".  
>
> My hunch is that pandoc doesn't support UNC paths, but I haven't been able 
> to find a quick explicit answer as to whether this should work or not.  If 
> it isn't supported I'll give up and move on, but if it is - what might I be 
> doing wrong?  
>

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