Xref: news2.mv.net comp.lang.c:81660 comp.os.msdos.djgpp:7865 From: schlein AT umbc DOT edu (Jonas J. Schlein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: fopen problem. Date: 25 Aug 1996 10:42:31 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4vpoon$t6h@umbc9.umbc.edu> References: <4v1gkv$kld AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au> NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc9.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: schlein To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Cs3prj Group 04 wrote: |> 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. Well a drive letter wouldn't have any meaning in UNIX, but other than that just do: /directory/filename.ext If I'm not mistaken the forward slashes will work in DOS as well (not from the command prompt). -- "If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL, and OBOL." Jonas J. Schlein (schlein AT gl DOT umbc DOT edu)