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From: av@utacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 2 questions (Turbo C)
Message-ID: <498@utacs.UTA.FI>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 01:26:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: utacs.498
Posted: Mon Aug 31 01:26:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Sep-87 07:09:02 EDT
References: <9034@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: av@utacs.UUCP (Arto Viitanen)
Organization: University of Tampere, Dept. of Computer Science, Finland
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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. I have no problems when I just use

I know, you are going to get hundreds of answers, but me too...

In C, \ is an escape character, so \t means <TAB> character and so on.
So, use

	fopen("c:\\temp\\helpfile", "r"))

I remember, that MSDOS can also handle paths with '/' character in
open-command. (That is, when there is confusion between file name and
option)

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Arto Viitanen
University Of Tampere, Department of Computer Science
P.O.Box 607
SF-33101 TAMPERE
FINLAND

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