dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (02/20/90)
In article <9002191431.aa13840@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> L77@TAUNOS.BITNET writes: >[...] >..but then you better watch BEQing upon a successful call,i.e. error >code=$00,because the error code for EOF-encountered is NOT $00 (I forget what >it IS right now). > > L77@TAUNOS Oddly enough, hitting the end of the file return an error *only* if no bytes were successfully read, so READing $ffff is okay when you want to read a whole SYS file. If it's too big to fit, you'll still get a bad buffer address error for hitting $BF00. You might as well use $9f00 for the request count, since you'll never be able to read more than that anyway. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II Developer Technical Support | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.