From:	"Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: BASIC : how to open a file?
Date:	Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:41:02 -0500
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<fiammy AT my-deja DOT com> wrote in message news:7ta23q$pqv$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com...
> I am really ignorant about some aspects of C programming, hence this
> question:
>
> Could you give me an outline of a routine that loads a file (in DOS),
> and returns a pointer to the structure in which you read the file?

Look up fopen() in your documentation.
FILE *fp = fopen("foo.txt", "r");

> I did something that should work, but my compiler DJGPP 2.02 tells me
> of an unary pointer.

Please post:

1. Version number of DJGPP, gcc, binutils, and any add-ons
   (Allegro, RSXNTDJ, etc.) you are using.
2. Your operating system (DOS? Sin95? 98? NT?)
3. The smallest source code fragment that produces the error.
4. The command line you are using to make the program.
5. Any error messages you get, and the output from symify.exe if there is a
   list of traceback EIPs.

> If possible, mail this answer also to me,
> Thanks
>
> David

HTH


Damian Yerrick
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