textutils.un/serialize problem

So I was trying to do a filesharing program using textutils.serialize(). Here is the code for the sender:

rednet.open("right")
write("Enter file name: ")
fName = read()
copy = textutils.serialize(fName)
rednet.send(13, copy)

And here is the code for the receiver:

rednet.open("left")
senderId, program = rednet.receive()
myCopy = textutils.unserialize(program)
shell.run(myCopy)

But I get the following error at the receiver:
No such program <_</>
But I don't know why

First of all, do you have a program at the receiver named "MyCopy"? Second of all, you need to put quotations around "myCopy" in shell.run, like this

shell.run("myCopy")

And your program can check if "myCopy" exists by doing

if fs.exists("myCopy") then
  -- If it exists
else
  -- If it doesn't
end

The serialization functions are meant to turn tables into strings and back. They're not what you want to use here. Look into the fs API.

Jiloacom, on 10 July 2014 - 11:45 PM said:

First of all, do you have a program at the receiver named "MyCopy"? Second of all, you need to put quotations around "myCopy" in shell.run, like this

shell.run("myCopy")

And your program can check if "myCopy" exists by doing

if fs.exists("myCopy") then
  -- If it exists
else
  -- If it doesn't
end

I don't think he wants to run "myCopy", he wants to run the content of the variable myCopy. In this case he wants to open the filename he received with rednet.

@OP Delete the textutils functions and pass the received variables to the rednet.send and shell.run functions directly.