Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!WPI.BITNET!DSEAH From: DSEAH@WPI.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE: ProDOS and CATALOG Message-ID: <8901260538.AA14584@wpi> Date: 26 Jan 89 05:38:23 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 You can also OPEN the volume name of the disk like a regular text file to READ. This code should work: 10 PRINT CHR$(4)"OPEN VOLUMENAME" 20 PRINT CHR$(4)"READ VOLUMENAME" 30 INPUT PR$: REM use regular text file processing 40 PRINT CHR$(4)"CLOSE" I can't remember if you have to prefix VOLUMENAME with a slash, but otherwise th is should work. Don't know if you could also write to the directory. Dave Seah --- Worcester Polytechnic Institute BITNET: dseah@wpi.bitnet INTERNET: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu AppleLink PE: Omnitreant