jschippe@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Schipper) (03/18/91)
I wrote a backup program in Turbo Pascal that keeps a log file in
the root directory of C: called "BACKUP.LOG". I had no problems
with that, but when the program was run on another computer, the
file could not be created. I got strange errors like "Invalid file
handle". Turbo says in its help mode that this error should never
occur... When I tried
C:>echo >backup.log
from dos, I also got a file creation error. Is "BACKUP.LOG" an
illegal filename? And if so, why?
Jeroen.
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nate@neutron.lcs.mit.edu (03/19/91)
Jeroen, Perhaps the other computer happened to have a directory named \backup.log. If so, file creation of a file with the same name in the root would fail. Good luck.... nate liskov