When will fopen fail?

[Chengi Jimmy Kuo]

stanley at phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:

>markh at csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:

>>    Assuming all the subdirectories are there and writeable (on UNIX or
>> MS-DOS), when does
>> 
>> 		     FP = fopen("...", "w");
>> 
>> fail and return FP == NULL?

>   On MS-DOS, under TC 2.0, all the time. Perror returns "no such file or
>directory".

Because "..." is an illegal filename under DOS.
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