Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: help with UNIX include files
Message-ID: <1990Jan19.181859.24160@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jan16.202640.357@csusac.csus.edu> <4092@helios.TAMU.EDU> <602@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 90 18:18:59 GMT

In article <602@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
>Close, but this ain't horseshoes.  If you use #include "foo.h" the compiler
>looks for foo.h in the directory the source file is in, not neccesarily
>the directory you are compiling from...

Actually this is implementation-dependent, although most compilers do it
as you describe.
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