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From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Ending a SYS file
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.022213.5404@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 02:22:13 GMT
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In article <38653@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes:
>Technically, you're supposed to have SIX bytes of $00 in the parameter list,
>not just 4.  (The 4 is the correct count, but two of the parameters are
>defined as two-byte values, for a total of 6.)

Sorry about that.  I always thought it was only 4, but I just looked in 
Beneath Apple ProDOS, and it says six.  I've always used a particular article
in Nibble in the past as an MLI reference, but it had absolutely nothing at
all on the QUIT call.  I don't even remember where I figured out the QUIT
call to begin with!

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