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Article #7016Re: Silly question (accessing /)
From: Robert C Sanders
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1986 19:02
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1986 19:02
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In article <789@unirot.UUCP> liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz ) writes: >All of a sudden I am terribly confused. The DOS technical reference tells >me that \ is not a file. How do I find out what files are under it then? >Where do I find it? I do not hack assembler and would really like to do >what I am doing in C. So, how do people deal with the fact that root has >no . ? Think of it this way: D:\ and D: are considered synomous for backwards compatibility -- where 'D' refers to a drive name. Whenever you want to check for '.', first call the DOS interupt 21H (most C libraries allow this) for the function that returns the current drive/path description as a string, and then strcmp() it to some "D:\". If true (0), you now know the name of '.'. - bob -- ------------ Continuing Engineering Education Telecommunications Purdue University "Time is a mouse that requires constant feeding..." -- me ...!ihnp4!pur-ee!pc-ecn!sandersr
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!ut-sally!seismo!gatech!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!hropus!riccb!ihopa!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-pc!sandersr From: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Silly question (accessing /) Message-ID: <530@ecn-pc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 15:02:20 EDT Article-I.D.: ecn-pc.530 Posted: Fri Jun 27 15:02:20 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jun-86 03:31:57 EDT References: <789@unirot.UUCP> Reply-To: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders) Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 23