Re: ProDOS commands

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za>]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:19:25 +1200, David Empson wrote:

> 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.

Pity they didn't put it into ProDOS it was quite useful under 3.3
I wonder if the verify in the ProDOS version of CopyII did an actual file
verify?
 

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