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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Changing the MSDOS option character
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 10:48:26 EDT
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> So unless a compiler is braindamaged, you should
> already be able to use syntax like:
> 
> fopen("c:/foo/bar" ... 
> 
> without difficulty.
> 
> --Lauren--

By this definition, the Microsoft C v3.0 compiler is braindamaged,
if the pathname string has been obtained by wildcard expansion on the
command line.

And they wrote both Xenix and MS-DOS.

Is there no hope?

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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