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From: Lawrence Kirby <fred AT genesis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fopen problem.
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 16:26:27 GMT
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <3219B4F3 DOT 2A41 AT iti-oh DOT com> bjs AT iti-oh DOT com "Brian Sayatovic" writes:

>Cs3prj Group 04 wrote:
>> 
>> Under UNIX, can you pass a file name with a path to fopen? If so how do you
>> do it? I know that, under DOS, you do it like so :
> c:\\directory\\filename.ext.
>
>
>You sure can.  On most UNIX file systems, you would use
>"/path/name/file.name".  The only difference is that most UNIX operating
>systems use a forward slash instead of a backslash.

All Unix OSs do, and DOS accepts forward slashes too. It is only
COMMAND.COM that requires backslashes.

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