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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 2 questions (Turbo C)
Message-ID: <1063@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 12:13:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1063
Posted: Sat Aug 29 12:13:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:18:02 EDT
References: <9034@brl-adm.ARPA> <3432@zen.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 16
Summary: Avoid hard-coded filenames, use / in pathnames

In article <3432@zen.berkeley.edu> schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP writes:
>
>Classic error: \t = tab, not '\''t', and \h = god knows what.
>
>Fix: if ( (infile = fopen("c:\\temp\\helpfile", "r")) == NULL)

I heartily recommend:

#define   HELPFILE "/temp/helpfile"   /* note forward slashes */

     if ( (infile = fopen(HELPFILE, "r")) == NULL)

It works, it looks nicer, it's easier to modify, and it's easier to
port to other operating systems, especially the **IX family.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi