[Birdlives]

I resolved the problem after reading an article on the NI website about file io in VxWorks controllers. I was using the path datatype, but it wasn't working for me, and the article said that if you type cast a string to a file data type and use "/c/" as the root directory, things will work out, and, well, they did!

Because I was not aware of the way that labview automatically delimits the path datatype, I have been misusing it. thanks for the info, Greg!!

Thanks all,
John