path not find

[deeprnoth]

I am try to learn pc-basic, but when I try to open a file it says path not find, I have a physical txt file in the drive.

[deeprnoth]

10 open "i", 1, "d:\test.txt"

then it said path not found in 10

[Rob Hagemans]

You have to first tell PC-BASIC where you want D: to be. It does not automatically use the Windows drives. Please see here: http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/doc/#mounting

You can see the list of files in D: with the command FILES "D:\".

[deeprnoth]

Hi Rob, thank you very much for the answer, I try to use "map-drives[=True|=False]" option, how to set this option in PC-BASIC? I write the command map-drives[True], it said syntax error.

Thanks

[Rob Hagemans]

It's not a BASIC command, it's a configuration file option. See the documentation http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/doc/#settings

[Anonymous]

This program ran with GWBASIC and also on PC-BASIC but now I want to have output file on the desktop, I tried to re-map the drive as shown below and it gets path not found error.

Trying to map pc-basic drives to windows c drive.
In configuration file, I changed mount= to:

map-drives=

mount=A:C\users\evan\desktop

The output file name is beout.txt to be located on the desktop of C:\users\evan\desktop

Tried the program statement as:

100 OPEN "C:\users\evan\desktop\beout.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

or

100 OPEN "C:\beout,txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

Getting path not found error.

[Rob Hagemans]

Hi, if you use the mount option as above, the statement should be

100 OPEN "A:\beout.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

since you have assigned the PC-BASIC drive letter A: to the WIndows folder C:\users\evan\desktop\

[Anonymous]

I must still be doing something wrong

Using statement

100 OPEN "A\beout.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

and config file statement:

mount=A:C:\users\evan\desktop
(tried with and without the leading # - not sure which is correct syntax)

still getting "path not found" error

when I change statement to simply:
100 OPEN "A" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
the program runs with screen output but I assume there's no printed output file

file beout.txt does exist on the desktop

Windows 8, 64bit

screenprints attached

[Rob Hagemans]

You probably need to remove the spaces and the # before the mount option. Also it's
100 OPEN "A:\beout.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #1

so you do need to include the : in the path after the drive letter

[Anonymous]

Finally found my problem after reading a number of other posts. In one post, you noted to exit and then repoen PC-Basic after making a change to the config file. That was it. I had saved the config file but had not closed/opened PC-Basic.

The other problem you noted in your post to me was that I had not removed the # before the mount= and had not left-justified mount= (removed leading spaces).

Now, the output file I located the desktop works properly. It might be good to note in the documentaion and config file comments to close/open PC-Basic after a config file change and also to removet he # and left-justify the changed setting. Thank you for your help.