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Section A:
System interface
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152 - Parse String and Construct FCB
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On entry: C
DE
On return: HL
98H
Pointer to Parameter area
pointer or 0
Possible logical errors:
- none -
Possible physical errors:
- none -
Differences to CP/M plus:
No errors can occur.
Differences to CP/M 2.2 resp. DiCOS:
New function.
The parameter area where DE points to must contain following two ad-
dresses:
DW
DW
STRING
FCB
Address of string to be parsed
Address of FCB to be made up
The string
constructed
The FCB must
ing rules:
specified is parsed for a valid filename and
accordingly. The string may contain up to 128
be 36 bytes long. The parsing process obeys to
an FCB is
characters.
the follow-
Spaces and tabs are skipped. If a colon is found, the immediately pre-
ceding character will be used as drive indicator. Filename and type are
taken over as specified, the filename must be separated from the file
type by a period. If a semicolon follows the filename, the subsequent
string is used as password. If filename or password are longer than 8 or
the file type longer than 3 characters respectively, the remainder of
the partial string is ignored. All letters are converted to upper case.
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