Re: What is wrong with this call?

c.lang.myself@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
fopen(”c:\try\clip1.dat”, “r”);

\t is the escape sequence for a horizontal tab
\c is an undefined escape sequence

I doubt very much that your filename includes those characters.

There are two obvious suggestions to make:
1) If your question is worth asking, it is worth puting in the the body of your message. Subject headers are not the place for anything important for your message.
2) Buy any decent C text, and read the sections on character constants, string literals, and escape sequences.
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