From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: #include problems under DOS
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:20:20 -0300
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Ofer Nave wrote:

> Okay, reinstalled everything under pure dos, set lfn=n, no problem.
>
> I'm still having a problem with absolute paths, though.  The following
> works:
>
> #include "file.ext"
> #include "/file.ext"
> #include "../dir/file.ext"
>
> But the minute I add a subdirectory to an absolute path:
>
> #include "/dir/file.ext"
>
> It doesn't find the file.

    That's odd, I tried it on my machine and "/dir/file.ext" works fine.  Maybe
you should try adding the drive letter to the pathname#include "C:/dir/file.ext"

    Also, I don't mean to insult your inteligence, but are you actually running
in a directory who's parent is root?

> Also, is there a file somewhere in which I can list a dozen or so include
> directories to look in, and avoid supplying paths in the source code
> altogether?

    Options->Directories->Include--
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