Re: ProDOS commands

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:03:44 +1200, David Empson wrote:
> 
> > VERIFY's purpose is to confirm that a file exists.  It doesn't open the
> > file and verify its contents.
> 
> VERIFY did more under DOS3.3 it did verify a files existence (an contents???)

I'm just quoting the manual (BASIC Programming with ProDOS) - it only
describes the use of VERIFY to check whether a particular file already
exists.  It doesn't suggest that it reads the contents of the file.

DOS 3.3's VERIFY command _does_ verify the file contents.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz