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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Need help with MLI
Message-ID: <3013@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 10:16:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 10:16:59 1987
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Summary: You may need to set the prefix...

In article <IUYDg-y00WAJY5U0AZ@andrew.cmu.edu>, mw22#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim) writes:
> 
> I'm having an awful time trying to get the MLI's OPEN command to work.  When
> I give it a pathname that begins with a "/" and a prefix, it works fine, but
> when I give it just a filename, hoping it will tack on the prefix itself, it
> returns a $40 -- "Pathname has invalid syntax".

Try setting the prefix first, the prefix isn't always set to the default
disk.  If it is not set the open command won't be able to append your
file name onto it and will return an error.
.   
Rick Fincher
ranger@ecsvax
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