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 Message 3444 
 Anssi Saari to Lawrence Woodman 
 Re: Closing a file in Assembly on the VI 
 18 Jun 21 10:48:21 
 
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Lawrence Woodman  writes:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I've been trying to save some memory on the VIC-20 to a file on disk but
> seem to be having some problems when it comes to close the file.  At the
> moment the file saves the data properly from assembly but I have to use
> 'CLOSE 8' from basic to prevent it having an asterisk next to the name in
> the directory entry.

I assembled with xa and ran in Vice but I don't get an asterisk in the
directory entry. Other than the obvious file name issue I see nothing
wrong but I'm hardly an expert.
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