From:	sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C++ file streams: help with reporting errors
Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 1998 22:19:23 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: 5 Aug 1998 03:04:49 GMT:

>	I know that in PASCAL, when file I/O fails the reasoning behind the 
>failure can be tracked down by monitoring the value of IORESULT.. What
>I am wondering is when I make use of fstream, ifstream and ofstream...
>How do I know the reasoning behind fstream::fail()? I'd like to be 
>able to report the problem back to the user, but I have no idea where 
>to retrieve the reasoning from.. Please help,

I'm not sure if this is still true with C++ but normally in C you would use
errno. I guess that this hasn't changed.

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