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From: Dan DOT Pop AT cern DOT ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: fopen problem.
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:48:53 GMT
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In <4v1gkv$kld AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au> cs3prj04 AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au (Cs3prj Group 04) writes:

>Under UNIX, can you pass a file name with a path to fopen? If so how do you
>do it? I know that, under DOS, you do it like so : c:\\directory\\filename.ext.

Did you try to do it in the most natural way and it didn't work?

BTW, in DOS it's better to do it like this: c:/directory/filename.ext.
It's more readable and less error-prone (is there any DOS programmer who
_never_ forgot to duplicate the backslash? :-)

Dan
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