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From: cjkuo@locus.com (Chengi Jimmy Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When will fopen fail?
Message-ID: <cjkuo.672009720@fafnir.la.locus.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 21:22:00 GMT
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stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:

>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".

Because "..." is an illegal filename under DOS.
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