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From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Subject: Re: Bug in DOSemu-FreeDOS-bin?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:05:21 +0400
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Hello.

kontrare wrote:
> i dont know if this will help but i seem to remember
> doing a bit of  coding a ways back and using
> fopen("c:\filename","r+b") in dos it wouldn't see the
> file till i did fopen("c:\\filename","r+b") so it may be
> the doshell is eating the first backslash
This has to do nothing with dosshell neither
with DOS or anything else of that kind.
The special chars in C must be prepended with
the backslash which discards their special
meaning or adds a special meaning to a normal
chars. Backslash itself is a special char also.
Just run the program like that:
---
#include <stdio.h> 

 
                    int main() { 

  printf("test\test\n"); 

} 

---
The result will be:
test    est

and with "test\\test\n" it will finally be
test\test