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From: brsmith@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: READ /RAM CATALOG IN APPLESOFT
Message-ID: <4950@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 88 01:40:58 GMT
References: <8804152230.aa12184@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: brsmith@umn-cs.UUCP (Brian R. Smith)
Organization: University of Minnesota
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In article <8804152230.aa12184@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> MEELISSE@HROEUR5.BITNET writes:
>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?
>
>Danny Lagrouw,
>MEELISSEN@HROEUR5.BITNET


I've got an idea; The directory on /RAM is shorter than what is on standard
floppies (only 12 entries).  If you ever need more than that, it'll grow,
but as /RAM is only 60K, it's not often.

Brian
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