FOPEN command

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From: Jeff Tomich
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:49

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Hello BL0528540-Bill!

03 Nov 92, BL0528540-Bill Oswald  ALC2817 writes to All:


 BOA>         stream=fopen("c:\foo\afile", "r")

 BOA> The resulting executable works if afile is in the same directory
 BOA> as the executable. If the above is correct the fopen command
 BOA> should be able to find afile independant of where the executable
 BOA> lives. But that does not seem to be the case. What am I doing wrong?
 BOA> BTW, I am using borland c++ 3.1

I assume *stream has been set as a pointer to point to FILE. Understanding that it is, copy the dir+filename into a variable and plug it in. Like,

char fname[80];
str(fname,"c:\foo\afile");
stream=fopen(fname, "r");


Jeff

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