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Re: question

jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Joseph Turner) writes:


>  Hi , I was wondering what the command "FLUSH" does on prodos. I came 
>across it when I was scanning a prodos disk.
>  Thanks
>    Joe.Turner


Here's some paraphrasing of what it says in "Basic Programming with
ProDOS":
 
The FLUSH command without options causes all files (with the
exception of EXEC files) to be flushed. If a pathname is used (e.g.
"FLUSH /VOLUME/FILE" only the specified file is flushed. When a file
is flushed, any characters in the output part of the file buffer are
written to that file, and updated index and allocation buffers are
copied to the file's directory.
 
Hope this helps a bit
 
Peter Hinchliffe
WAppleII, inc.
 
Western Australia