Re: Prodos MLI difficulties

[zcaa1122@rpool6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer)]

In article <1993Aug16.164841.5218@leland.stanford.edu>,
Bayard Wenzel <geomorph@leland.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>Say I want to create a file. Then I eventually have to point to the
>pathname. The technical reference manual says if the pathname doesn't 
>start with a '/', prodos will use the present path to create a full
>pathname. However, when I give it anything less than a full pathname
>(/this/is/a/pain for instance) it gives me error $40, incorrect
>pathname syntax.

What code are you using? I never had this kind of problem with any ProDOS
version....

Try a get_prefix call first. Maybe no prefix is set, so the resulting
pathname may be illegal. If there is no prefix, you should set it with
set_prefix first (obviously ;-).

- Wulf