ProDOS/Applesoft file ?'s...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Two questions about text file handling under ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM...

I'm fairly well experienced with text file handling under DOS 3.3; just
wondering about some differences with ProDOS:

1)  Has the APPEND command been fixed?  I mean, can I safely APPEND to a
file, or should I continue with my usual workarounds?

2)  Can I specify a byte parameter greater than 32,767?  Or do I still
need to use the "long record" workaround?

I'm writing a program that handles a data heap which consists of a random
access file with a variable record length, and an index file to find where
those records begin.  At the moment, though, my source file (which,
admittedly, is HTML) is 109k.  I think it will crush down to about 50k,
which is still longer than 32,767 bytes...

Any advice welcome; I'd ask c.s.a2.programmer, except that it is not
carried on my news server... 8-(

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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