Re: About slashes

John,

whenever you use a string literal in MAXScript, back slashes are treated 
(together with the next character) as special characters for things such 
as quotes, tab, newline etc. That makes a back slash a special character 
itself, so if you want to use a backslash in a string, use two.

s = "rs\tuv"  -- this is the sequence 'r', 's', TAB, 'u', 'v'

but

s = "s\\tu"   -- this will create the sequence 's', '\', 't', 'u'


If you are just passing around string values in MAXScript, there will be 
no further conversion of backslashes.

s = "c:\\temp\\"
t = s
-- t will still contain the sequence c : \ t e m p \

Note that if you print a string, the backslash codes will be converted. 
So printing t from the last example above will produce this:

c:\temp\

And maxfilepath returns a string. So just do this:

p = maxfilepath
makeDir p

and this should all work.

If you want to add to the path, you can do this

p = maxfilepath
p = p + "subdir\\"
makeDir p

You can read more about this in the MXS online help page titled "String 
Literals"

For file paths, there is a special convention that forward slashes mean 
the same as two back slashes. Therefore some people prefer to write 
paths with forward slashes.