RE: [Dev-C++] no read file

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of rchavez
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:59 AM
> To: Nancy Alvarez
> Cc: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] no read file
> 
> I ran into a similar problem using files.  In my case I 
> didn't know that
> DevC++ does not default to the directory where the executable 
> file is stored
> so my files were not found.



Well i think it does. Did you ran it separately or from within the IDE?



> One fix was to explicitly set the directory path along with 
> the file name.
> For example, if you wanted the file prova2.dat to be read out of the
> directory Dev-C++/datafiles on a PC use
> 
>  "C:/Dev-C++/datafiles/prova2.dat" in f_in.open().
> 
> In microsoft operating systems the directory path is 
> specified with '\' but
> your code will be more portable if you use forward slash '/' instead.


This kind of thing cannot be portable. It depends on the OS and the
compiler. GCC follows the UNIX style which is /.



> 
> There is probably a way to set the default directory path in 
> your program
> and there is also a way to specify the directory where the 
> executable code
> is stored but I don't know how.  Can someone else help with this?

I am not using Dev-C++ but the same compiler (MINGW) and when i ran the
program by its own, it looks for files in its directory by default. 




Ioannis

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