[Coco] Basic09 & Reading files

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Unfortunately, I am not near a Coco (or emulator) at the moment, but depending on how you are getting the directory entry (GET, or a I$Read syscall), their are certain characters it stops on, I seem to recall (particularly with GET).  
You are opening it with :DIR, I presume? Or are you opening the disk raw with /d[x]@?

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Feb 21, 2017, at 6:58 PM, phillip taylor <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the type statement it's dim by 29 charectors. Since I am using a
> emulator its hard to copy and past the code here.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:54 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> There should be no restriction (unless you didn’t DIM the string long
>> enough). What exact code are you using?
>> 
>> L. Curtis Boyle
>> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 21, 2017, at 6:39 PM, phillip taylor <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I wrote a program in Basic09 that reads the file names from the harddrive
>>> but its only reading the 1st 20 chars. Is there a restrictions that
>>> prevents from reading the filename that equal up to 29 chars?
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