nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqwl8sdcnqcrusekg4g8gwm807jyc8u2kjdpw9demm2gfj4esg0tkshl5h35 (nprofile…5h35) Hey, so I got my silly programming language running as a ProDOS system program over the weekend. Now I'm trying to get file I/O working. I feel like I'm missing something simple with MLI pathnames though. I tried absolute paths, relative paths, all caps, no caps, raw ASCII (like the docs say), ora chars with #$80, single letter path names, etc. They all give me error $40 "Invalid pathname syntax. The pathname contains illegal characters."
Any tips?
https://prodos8.com/docs/techref/calls-to-the-mli/
slembcke
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2026-01-26 20:45:02 UTC
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