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Quoting Siobhan Roche <sroch.cl4@compapp.dcu.ie>:

> Hi,
> I have just installed SWI Prolog, and I am wondering how do I consult a
> file
> on a different drive from SWI.
> Thanks in advance
> Siobhan

The consult predicate takes an atom as its argument, so in single quotes type 
the complete path to the file using forward slashes instead of backslashes. The 
path can contain a drive letter on Windows.

Bill Hollingsworth
Computer Science Department
The University of Georgia
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