Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!mind!romero
From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: DOS 3.3 File Manager
Keywords: desparation
Message-ID: <1568@mind.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 16:26:08 GMT
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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I'm developing some software for the Apple IIe/c using Manx's C compiler
v1.05.  I'm in a bit of a bind at the moment, because Manx's creat() 
function from their library is rather buggy.  I can't seem to get it to
work for creating text files-- the machine almost invariably crashes.
Since the creat() function is evidently nothing but an interface to the file
manager of DOS 3.3, I'd like to try bypassing the library altogether 
and calling the file manager directly, but I can't find a description of
the file manager anywhere in the technical reference manual for DOS 3.3 or
in the Dos Programmer's Toolkit.   Does anyone out there know a readily
available reference which describes the use of the file manager? Can 
anyone out there provide me with examples of their own code for using it?

My only other alternative would be to create the file as an empty binary
file, then grub through the catalog track and change the byte which
holds the file type from binary to text.  From what I remember of DOS
3.3, this should work.  Does anyone out there know of a reason why
it might fail?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

-Antonio Romero       romero@mind.Princeton.EDU