CreateFile Failed problem

[Paul McKenzie]

Here is where the declaration is. So 16 characters.

#ifdef __APPLE_CC__
  char mDevice[64];
#else
  char mDevice[16];
#endif

What if the name is more than 16 characters? How are you going to stuff 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag?

 strncpy(mDevice, aDevice, sizeof(mDevice) - 1);

This effectively truncates that name to 15 characters.

CreateFile on \\.\C:\Documents an=failed with error code: 2"

That is the message you got back. Look at the name -- it should be much more than 15 characters. How much more? That's what string classes such as CString and std::string are for -- unlimited length strings.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie