Harry Potter  schrieb:
> having a problem: when I try to read the directory,
> I get a ?Syntax Error.

It means KERNAL OPEN failed, because the file number is zero
according to "Compute's Programming The PET/CBM".

> I don't know what's causing this, but the following code seems to
> cause the problem (I'm using cc65):
> ----------------------------
> 	__asm__ (
> 		//Set LFNs.
> 		"\tlda\t#1\n"
> 		"\tldx\t#8\n"
> 		"\tldy\t#0\n"
> 		"\tsty\t_c\n"
> 		"\tsty\t_e\n"
> 		"\tjsr\t$FFBA\n"
This calls the SCRATCH routine in BASIC 4.
> 		//Set name ("$", as above in dire).
> 		"\tldx\t#<_dire\n"
> 		"\tldy\t#>_dire\n"
> 		"\tjsr\t$FFBD\n"
This reads the disk device status.
> 		//Open directory.
> 		"\tjsr\t$FFC0\n"
> 		);
> ----------------------------
> Can you help me out?

Use cc65's cbm_opendir and cbm_readdir declared in cbm.h
e.g:

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, unsigned char **argv)
{

	struct cbm_dirent dire;
	unsigned char result = 0;
	unsigned char lfn = 1;
	unsigned char device = 8;
	unsigned char dirname[17] = "$";

	result = cbm_opendir(lfn, device, dirname);
	if (result)
	{
		printf("error: %hhd\n", result);
		return result;
	}

	while (result == 0)
	{
		result = cbm_readdir(lfn, &dire);
		switch (result)
		{
			case 0:
				printf("%3hd %-16s %#hhx %#hhx\n",
						dire.size,
						dire.name,
						dire.type,
						dire.access
				);
				break;
			case 2:
				printf("%3hd blocks free.\n", dire.size);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	}
	cbm_closedir(lfn);
	return 0;
}

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