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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:44:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: The One <i51359 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Program doesn't work when running as a service in windows
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, The One wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The C program runs fine in Dos prompt or Cygwin Shell.
>  When run as a service, it's not working.  The service
> is started without error.  The program checks for
> files in a directory, if there's a file it will print
> to the network printer by calling
> fopen("//computername/printer", "w").  I'm finding out
> the when it's running as a service, fopen is returning
> NULL.

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.shares>.
It also helps to check the errno after fopen returns NULL.
HTH,
	Igor
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