On , Mick Mcham (1:106/4100{at}fidonet) wrote: 

 > The following works just fine but creates the file in the default 
 > directory:     fopen("testfile", "w");

 > However, if I try to include the path in the file name such as 
 > fopen("c:\testfile", w); it does not work.

 > How do you specify the path for file creation?

Mick...

  In C, '\' is the escape character, so you have to double it, i.e. 

      fopen("c:\\testfile", "w"); 

  BTW, an easy alternative is to use '/' as the path delimiter. Only some
DOS and Windows programs *require* that you use the '\' character (the most
significant one being COMMAND.COM). Try it, you'll find this works just as
well...

      fopen("c:/testfile", "w"); 


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