On Tuesday, 01-10-1995  Michael Ramsey wrote to All about "writing
text file" as follows:

MR> I need to know how to write an ascii string with an eol to 
MR> an arbitrary disk file.  We are working on a project that 
MR> must have all output written to normal dos ascii file.
MR>  
MR>  exa: "Windows 95 will never be released"
MR>  
MR>  We want to write this in C code and have it written to a file.

Hi Michael,

You do this the same way as you would in DOS - fopen(), fprintf()
and/or fputs(), and finished off by fclose(). Straight out of
, just like any other platform's C library. For example:

 #include 
 int main(void)
 {
     FILE *Report_file;

     Report_file = fopen("D:\\REPORTS\\MYREPORT.PRN","w");
     if (Report_file)
     {
         fputs("Windows 95 will never be released.\n",
              Report_file);
         fclose(Report_file);
     }
     else
         fputs("Unable to open report file.\n",stderr);

     return 0;
 }

The main thing is to make sure your files follow the DOS 8.3 naming
standards, even if you are using HPFS. Although DOS programs running in
a VDM can access files on HPFS partitions, they cannot "see" files
whose names do not conform to the 8.3 naming standard used by FAT
partitions.

Regards

Dave

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