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From: MEELISSE@HROEUR5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: READ /RAM CATALOG IN APPLESOFT
Message-ID: <8804152230.aa12184@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 15 Apr 88 14:17:00 GMT
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I have written a short BASIC program to read the contents of a ProDOS
directory and put it in a string array (see below). All works fine until I
try reading my /RAM disk... Just after the filenames have been read and
before the "Blocks free..." line should be read, I get an OUT OF DATA error
and the program stops executing. Why does this happen? Is there anything
I can do to prevent it?
The program looks like this:
  100 D$=CHR$(4): PRINT D$"OPEN/RAM,TDIR"
  110 PRINT D$"READ/RAM"
  120 INPUT S1$ : INPUT S2$ : INPUT S3$ : INPUT S4$
  130 I=1
  140 INPUT F$(I) : IF F$(I)<>"" THEN I=I+1 : GOTO 140
  150 INPUT BLOCKS$
  160 PRINT D$"CLOSE"

(I use an Apple //c and ProDOS 1.2)

Danny Lagrouw,
MEELISSEN@HROEUR5.BITNET