Re: OS_File question

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In article <5cafa5f8c8News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <5cafa1143ebob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
>    Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> > I would like to understand what this means...

> > It's from PRM OS_File 13.
> > If R0=13
> >  R4 = pointer to control-character terminated comma separated path
> > string.
> > What does that mean? I can find no examples anywhere.

> It means what it says! 

Really :-) 

> Remember a path ends in a full stop.

I think that was it. For some reason I had it in my head that the
full stop ending was for xxx$path not any "path". Having the full
stop is giving me better results. Thank you.


> From that I assume you are writing in BASIC. 

No, assembler.

Cheers,

Bob.

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OS_File question Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-02-23 11:40 +0000
  Re: OS_File question Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-02-23 12:33 +0000
    Re: OS_File question Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-23 13:20 +0000
      Re: OS_File question Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-02-23 14:13 +0000
      Re: OS_File question Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-02-23 14:22 +0000
    Re: OS_File question Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2026-02-23 14:15 +0000

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