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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:55:02 -0500
To: Tilman Utz <Tilman DOT Utz AT studserv DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de>,
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: file-IO and mno-cygwin
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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.


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