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Article #111Re: FOPEN command
From: Gil Nardo
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 07:09
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 07:09
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wao@aluxs.att.com (BL0528540-Bill Oswald ALC2817) writes:
> Here is a short question. If I have a line of code as follows:
>
> stream=fopen("c:\foo\afile", "r")
>
> The resulting executable works if afile is in the same directory
> as the executable. If the above is correct the fopen command
> should be able to find afile independant of where the executable
> lives. But that does not seem to be the case. What am I doing wrong?
> BTW, I am using borland c++ 3.1
Did you try using double backslashes?
fp = fopen("c:\\foo\\afile", "r");
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