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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:21:14 -0500
From: "Matt Wozniski" <godlygeek AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: just failing to open a file at specified location/directory
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On 2/9/07, winner wei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I wanted to open a file at a specified directory for writing, running it in Cygwin, the opening just failed. It is extremely simple, like this:
>
> if((fp=fopen("C:\cygdrive\c\home\user\data\filename", "w"))==NULL)

You need to use posix-style paths.  You're mixing and matching between
posix-style and DOS-style.  What you almost certainly want is
if ( ( fp = fopen("/cygdrive/c/home/user/data/filename", "w") ) == NULL )

Note:  No `C:' whatsoever.  Cygwin addresses paths entirely
differently from DOS (and more like the rest of the world), so you
should never use the driveletter-colon terminology in cygwin.

~Matt

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