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to: Lawrence Woodman
from: Daniel Path
date: 2021-06-21 20:28:00
subject: Closing a file in Assembl

Hello Lawrence.

21 Jun 21 08:12, you wrote to me:

 LW> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 20:54:46 +1200, Daniel Path wrote:

 >> 18 Jun 21 06:56, you wrote to you:
 >>
 >>  LW> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:56:16 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence Woodman
 >>  LW> wrote:
 >>
 >>  >> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:29:57 -0000 (UTC), Tilmann Hentze wrote:
 >>  >>
 >>  >>> Lawrence Woodman  wrote:
 >>  >>>> I have created a piece of code which replicates the problem
 >>  >>>> below if anyone has any ideas where I'm going wrong I'd be
 >>  >>>> very grateful.
 >>  >>>>
 >>  >>>> [snip]
 >>
 >>  LW> I've managed to track down the problem.  Because I was
 >>  LW> automating some of the testing around this I hadn't left a long
 >>  LW> enough delay before displaying the directory.  It turns out
 >>  LW> that it takes a little longer than I expected for the SAVE
 >>  LW> command to complete the write. Once I left a bigger delay
 >>  LW> before checking the directory everything was fine.  It also
 >>  LW> appears that there is no need to call CLOSE either.
 >>
 >> and what are you coding? :)


 LW> I'm creating an article and video about various ways to load and save
 LW> memory on the VIC-20.  I wrote the assembly code that I posted a while
 LW> ago and was sure it worked previously.  As it turned out there was
 LW> nothing significantly wrong with the code, it was purely a testing
 LW> issue.  I can post the URLs to the article/video once finished if
 LW> you're interested?

sure i am! thanks Lawrence :)
good luck and have fun!

--
Daniel

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