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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 2 questions (Turbo C)
Message-ID: <3491@venera.isi.edu>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 14:44:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: venera.3491
Posted: Sat Aug 29 14:44:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 23:48:28 EDT
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Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <9034@brl-adm.ARPA> bonak%cs.uiowa.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Esmail Bonakdarian) writes:
> I am using Turbo C and have the following problem trying to open a file
> in a program: 
>
>   if ( (infile = fopen("c:\temp\helpfile", "r")) == NULL )
>     { fprintf(stderr, "Input file HELPFILE not found.");
>       exit(1);
>     }
>always results in the error message. It seems that I can't specify
>a path along with the file name.

Paths in DOS include a BACKSLASH, which you need to quote with an additional
backslash.  Try this:

   if ( (infile = fopen("c:\\temp\\helpfile", "r")) == NULL )

Larry Miller
USC/ISI
lmiller@venera.isi.edu (no uucp)