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Re: file-IO and mno-cygwin


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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