fopen a File Named During Run-time

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1071 at bilver.UUCP> alex at bilver.UUCP (Alex Matulich) writes:
>As I understand it, the "const char *" means that fopen() cannot
>modify the pointer in any way.

Wrong -- it indicates that the function will not modify anything that
can be pointed AT using that pointer.  The actual pointer argument is
of course passed by value and couldn't be modified by the function in
any case.