Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:55:02 -0500 To: Tilman Utz , cygwin-Mailing From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: file-IO and mno-cygwin In-Reply-To: <3A9072B8.16CF2FBC@studserv.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <3A9133C7.00000007@Enterprise-E.direcpc.com> At 08:11 PM 2/18/2001, Tilman Utz wrote: >- specifying "example.txt" or "c:\\example.txt" results in a Windows >error but > also produces if not already existing an empty >'example.txt file. These are valid Win32 file names. You have to quote all '\' in C code. Don't know why you get a "Windows error" in this case. Maybe if you included the error it would be more obvious. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple