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   Lawrence Woodman to Anssi Saari   
   Re: Closing a file in Assembly on the VI   
   18 Jun 21 08:04:07   
   
   From: lorrywoodman@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 10:48:21 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Thanks for trying.  I have got it running now, the problem was that I was   
   automating this and wasn't leaving it long enough before checking the   
   directory.  It's all working now :-)   
      
   Best wishes   
      
      
   Lorry   
      
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