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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When will fopen fail?
Message-ID: <1FVk11w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 02:29:35 GMT
References: <11079@uwm.edu>
Organization: Mad Scientist
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markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:

>    Assuming all the subdirectories are there and writeable (on UNIX or
> MS-DOS), when does
> 
> 		     FP = fopen("...", "w");
> 
> fail and return FP == NULL?

   On MS-DOS, under TC 2.0, all the time. Perror returns "no such file or
directory".