Re: Prodos MLI difficulties

[ScottM@cup.portal.com (Scott - Maxwell)]

>The problem you are encountering is like due to the fact that the
>pathname buffer you have defined is not set up as a class 0 input
>string.  Class 0 input strings require a single length byte which
>holds the length of the pathname which follows.
>
>Here is an example of what you might try:
>
>        dfb     $C0             ;   CREATE FILE
>        da      creParm         ;   CREATE FILE PARAMETERS
>        asc     '/THIS/IS/A/PAIN'
>
I have a question. I'm guessing that asc defines an ascii string. What do
dfb and da do?

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