Re: Whatever happened to...

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:

>Yes - actually.  I believe the program was never getting to my close
>statement since I would do a Control-Reset after a few moments when
>nothing would happen.  It is possible that after the first couple of
>times (or maybe even the first time) the files were still open and
>the program tried to allocate new buffers.  As I'd said - the program

If you had been trying to open the same files over again you would have gotten
a FILE BUSY error after the first open

>PS:I know that under DOS 3.3 Applesoft didn't close out files, but I
>thought that under ProDOS they had fixed that problem.  Guess not huh?
>Duhhhhhhhhhh. :(

Problem?? It's always the programmer's responsability to close files that were
opened and that's the way it should be.
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