open() Will Not Ignore Append Path

Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
Article ID: Q40183

6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 1.00

MS-DOS                 | WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

The C Run-time (CRT), included with:

    - Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax
    - Microsoft C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0
    - Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, version 1.0

MS-DOS allows you to set an APPEND path to locate data files. Microsoft C library functions such as open() and fopen() will not ignore the APPEND statement, even if a full pathname is given to the specific function.

This is expected behavior. If you want to have the APPEND path ignored, you will have to write your own low-level open() function, or make sure that the APPEND path is removed before your program is run.

Additional reference words: kbinf 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 1.00
KBCategory: kbprg
KBSubcategory: CRTIss
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
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