Hi,
i'm trying to learn some c++ and have to write a program that copies a binary file to floppy. the book i'm learning with offers the folowing solution. but obviously it's for windows and i couldn't get it working on my box though i tried several times with various changes. everything compiled well but didn't work :-). all i get is: Exclaim: Exercise25 <file>. (anyway i don't know what that's good for.) how do i get that going? a good advice is much appreciated, thanks
jens

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char x;
char indatei[31], outdatei[33];
if (argc<2) {
cerr <<"Exclaim: Exercise25 <file>"<<endl;
return 1;
}
strcpy(indatei, argv[1]);
strcpy(outdatei,"A:");
strcat(outdatei,indatei);
ofstream outputf(outdatei, ios:ut | ios::binary);
ifstream inputf(indatei, ios::in | ios::binary);
while (!inputf.eof()){
inputf.read(&x,1);
outputf.write(&x,1);
}
return 0;
}

try below changes:

/***************************

#include<iostream.h>
#include<fstream.h>
#include<cstring.h>

***************************/

just add the ".h" as suffix.

Maybe it is also because of the error of these below codes .

/*******************************
strcpy(indatei, argv[1]);
strcpy(outdatei,"A:");
strcat(outdatei,indatei);
*******************************/

just suppose that,
input the command: copy c:\file.txt

so, the string "indatei" is "c:\file.txt".
after execute the code "strcat(outdatei,indatei);"
the string "outdatei" becomes "A:\c:\file.txt".

then,when executing the code
"ofstream outputf(outdatei, iosut | ios::binary);"
the output path now is "A:\c:\file.txt".
obviously, the output path is wrong.

I am a newbie!
Maybe my advice is useless!
^_^

Hey! remember that in linux there's it's not an A: device, floppy its located on /mnt/floppy and has to be mounted: i don't know any functions to check that floppy is mounted, but you can always call something like:


system(" mount floppy");

which does a 'mount floppy' call from a C program, then try to open the file with a directory of type "/mnt/floppy/whatever.txt"

Hano

unfortunately the 'system("mount floppy")' does not work. (compiler takes it as an implicit declaration of function). but in general that was what my question was about: how to: mount -t /dev/fd0 /media/floppy or similar. so if someone has an idea of that - would be great. bye
jens

sorry! i forgot to tell you that you have to put headers on the c program:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


If you don't, the compiler of course doesn't know what system is

Hano

great! that seems to work. only trouble is that only 'root' is allowed to run that mount command. i guess i'll find out myself how to fix that.
muchas gracias por otra vez! and many thanks to wwnn1, naturally you were right about the name of the output file. cheers, jens

worth remembering that "mount floppy" won't work on all systems - it would depend on there being this entry in the system's /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto ro,user,noauto 0 0

(or similar). the "user" option, btw, allows non-root users to mount the device. since this is only an example program, i guess you can change it to suite your systems fstab configuration anyway

you´re right; i actually used:
'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy' instead of 'mount floppy'