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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Pathnames in "C" compilers (Help!)
Message-ID: <103700016@ima.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 14:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 14:58:00 1985
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/* Written  7:38 pm  Sep 20, 1985 by brb@philabs in ima:net.micro.pc */
> I am unable to open files using a directory search with either the
> Mark Williams or Lattice "C" compilers. ...
> The function:
>           infile=fopen("c:\usr\text\things.txt","r")
> returns NULL to infile.
> The function:
>           infile=fopen("things.txt","r")
> does NOT return NULL -- it succeeds in opening the file ...

Try opening "c:\\usr\\text\\things.txt".  Remember, this is C and \t
turns into a tab character.

John Levine, ima!johnl

PS:  MS-DOS and the C language clearly were not born to be friends.