Would there be a way to open a file and the program wil ask u if u want to save it as a bak file? Would it be something similiar to fopen? for it opens it to read then saves as a file u designate it as? Or open winrar and create a rar file with fopen/ something else?
Sure, you (not u) do
remove("file.bak");
rename("file.txt","file.bak");
fp = fopen( "file.txt", "w" );
Then do what you would normally do to write the file.
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Ok so if wanted to copy the whole file and save it in a arrary to write to another file somewhere else like a backup folder? would that work i got this code so far
Code:#include <stdio.h> int main() { char account[50]; FILE *Bakfile; FILE *fp; printf( "Please Choose from list below of which file to make a backup of\n" ); fgets( account, 50, stdin); rename("account.txt","account.bak"); fp=fopen("c:\\backups\account.txt", "r"); fprintf(fp, "%s", account ); system("pause"); return 0; }
Why are you trying to open account.txt when you just renamed it to account.bak? Also, don't you mean "c:\\backups\\account.bak", with two backslashes?
I forgot to fix it up after i posted i found those errors after i posted sorry ^_^Originally Posted by Rashakil Fol
Even in DOS/Windows, you can specify paths with slashes:This has the advantage of not needing to escape backslashes (so less error prone), and being more consistent across platforms.Code:"c:/backups/account.bak"
