Re: Help Me!! Getting CATALOG into an Array Variable

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <1e6ms6s.13a8md613iod28N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Jon Bettencourt <jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get the CATALOG of the current ProDOS directory into an
> > array in Applesoft.
> 
> The correct technique is to use the OPEN then READ command to open the
> directory and start reading from it, then use the INPUT command to read
> each line of the catalog.  (You need to use the ",TDIR" directive with
> the open command, since you aren't opening a text file.) 

Great! That's how to read the catalog of a certain directory, but what
about just the current directory? Is there a way to find out what the
current directory is?

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