The only mention I can find is in the 154C User's Guide. On page 56, last paragraph, it says "Pattern matching characters are allowed in the name when accessing an existing file, but not when creating a new one" On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Jim Brain wrote: > Someone on Facebook just asked why creating a REL file with record length 42 > generated a syntax error DOS error code, and I thought they must be putting > in the command wrong. > > I tried it on real HW here (64/1541) and to my surprise, it fails. 41 and > 43 work, but 42 (chr$(42) = '*', BTW) fails to create the file. > > Is this a known bug, or is there a better way to create a REL file (I used > the 1541 manual's open 2,8,2,"relfile,l,"+chr$(42)) that does not cause the > issue? > > Jim > > -- > Jim Brain > brain_at_jbrain.com > www.jbrain.com > > wlevak_at_sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.orgReceived on 2021-01-26 11:00:03
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