Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sask.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!alberta!sask!coleman From: coleman@sask.UUCP (Geoff Coleman) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Re: Pathnames in "C" compilers (Help!) Message-ID: <285@sask.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 16:42:06 EDT Article-I.D.: sask.285 Posted: Sat Sep 28 16:42:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 02:26:51 EDT References: <450@philabs.UUCP> <12875@styx.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of Saskatchewan, CANADA Lines: 30 > > > > infile=fopen("c:\usr\text\things.txt","r") > > > > *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR ESCAPE CHARACTER *** > > Remember? '\\' is an escape character? > Try feeding an extra one to the parser. > > infile=fopen("c:\\usr\\text\\things.txt","r") > > John > -- > ARPA jlt@styx > UUCP ...!seismo!lognet2!styx!jlt ...!idi!styx!jlt > > From Stebwer's Dictionary: > Absent minded -adj. > 1. Uh, well, uh, ... I forget. > 2. What were we talking about? You could always just specify the name as a valid unix path. ie: fp = fopen("c:/user/text/things.txt","r"); This works vary nicely from a lattice C program and the same can be done if you use a charecter string that is read in from a lattice C program. Apparently DOS uses "/" or "\" as valid path characters but command.com does not. Geoff Coleman University of Saskatchewan