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From: garyh@iddic.UUCP
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Subject: Undocumented 1541 file mode
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 00:04:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 00:04:03 1984
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One of the magazines (I don't remember which) recently made casual mention of
the fact that there is an APPEND mode for sequential files --
 
     OPEN 8,8,8,"NAME,S,A"
 
I tried it and it seems to work. It is not mentioned at all in my 1541 manual.
Why?  My guess is that it was just clumsiness on Commodore's part. Or perhaps
it is not reliable, so it wasn't included. (Though if that's the case, then
the save/replace '@:' shouldn't have been included, as it's well known that
using it may trash your files.)
 
   Gary Hanson     Tektronix IDG