OpenEuphoria

Re: Opening a file - File Open Dialog spoils future code

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ulture.g?uv.fr> Jan 16, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > open() doesn't understand Windows folders, because Windows doesn't have a
> > notion
> > of a current directory. open() uses the PATH environment variable, which is
> > a DOS/Unix thing Windows supports for backward compatibility only) and looks
> > for MyFileName.CFG in places completely different from where Windows looks
> > for
> > them, so it probably just can't see the file there.
> 
> I thought that it did, and that %PATH is only used for executables and for
> dlls.  What do current_dir() and chdir() do then?
> 
> Matt

They do return something which is defined in the C library used to compile the
source, so the answer lies in a black box. Does anyone know what they do under
Windows? At any rate, I have learnt not to use open() with unqualified file
names.
As far as I remember from the discussion about where to put euinc.conf, it was
decided not to rely on the current directory precisely for that reason.

CChris