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From: jschippe@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Schipper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Trouble while creating file "BACKUP.LOG"
Keywords: backup
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.150535.26228@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 18 Mar 91 15:05:35 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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I wrote a backup program in Turbo Pascal that keeps a log file in
the root directory of C: called "BACKUP.LOG". I had no problems
with that, but when the program was run on another computer, the
file could not be created. I got strange errors like "Invalid file
handle". Turbo says in its help mode that this error should never
occur...  When I tried     

    C:>echo >backup.log

from dos, I also got a file creation error. Is "BACKUP.LOG" an
illegal filename? And if so, why?



Jeroen.


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