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From: schumann@puff.WISC.EDU (Christopher Schumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Need help with MLI
Message-ID: <710@puff.WISC.EDU>
Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 00:13:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 27 00:13:29 1987
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Summary: Maybe a blank prefix

mw22#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim) writes:
> when I give [the MLI] just a filename, hoping it will tack on the prefix 
> itself, it returns a $40 -- "Pathname has invalid syntax".
> Any help or comments would be appreciated.
> Michael Wertheim

I had the very same problem quite a while back.

The problem occurs only when there is NO prefix (which happens a lot in
BASIC.system).
If there is no prefix in BASIC, the BI will look in the current drive
(with the ONLINE command) and give you that name as the prefix, when 
there really isn't one.  The BI also prepends that name to many file names.

To get your program to work, you must explicity set the prefix.
Either with the PREFIX command from BASIC, or in your ML program with
ONLINE, and SET_PREFIX.

Hope that helps,
Chris Schumann					schumann@puff.wisc.edu