Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!bet From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Pathnames in "C" compilers (Help!) Message-ID: <474@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 14:21:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.474 Posted: Mon Sep 23 14:21:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:28:16 EDT References: <450@philabs.UUCP> Reply-To: duccpc!bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III) Distribution: net Organization: Duke University Computation Center Lines: 18 In article <450@philabs.UUCP> brb@philabs.UUCP (Brian Bertan) writes: > infile=fopen("c:\usr\text\things.txt","r") The '\' character is special in C character strings. To use it you must write two of them: infile=fopen("c:\\usr\\text\\things.txt","r") Why, oh why, did Microsoft elect to use the quoting character on the operating system they seem to be trying to migrate DOS towards for the file pathname separator? Oh well. -Bennett -- "Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse." (Who said that?) Bennett Todd -- Duke Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706-7756; (919) 684-3695 UUCP: ...{decvax,seismo,philabs,ihnp4,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!duccpc!bet