[Coco] Does the DIR option of OPEN work in Basic09 ?

[dave at davebiz.com]

I think it might be high-bit set.



On 5/22/2021 6:54 PM, James Jones wrote:
> Oops.. not *quite* text. There's the file's LSN and I don't recall offhand
> how the name is terminated.
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:34 PM James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Directory entries need some massaging to turn into printable form; they
>> are not text. Even with that, unless you have /dd/SYS/SYS, you won't see an
>> entry for "SYS" in /dd/SYS. You will see one for ".", which corresponds to
>> /dd/SYS.
>>
>> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 2:33 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried this OPEN #dp,dline$:READ+DIR
>>>
>>> But
>>>      dline$="/dd/SYS"
>>>      OPEN #dp,dline$:READ+DIR
>>>      REPEAT
>>>         READ #dp,line$
>>>         PRINT line$
>>>      UNTIL EOF(#dp)
>>>
>>> Did not print the SYS directory, Why ?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
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