Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Add support for random-access text files

Open
#5 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the implementations of OPEN, CLOSE, READ, and WRITE and the ProDOS file-handling path; define how record length, record number, and byte offset should behave. Done means all four listed operations support the specified random-access text-file forms.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

  • OPEN path,Ln (L is record length)
  • CLOSE [path]
  • READ path[,Rn][,Bn] (R is record number, B is byte offset in record)
  • WRITE path[,Rn][,Bn] (R is record number, B is byte offset in record)
Dominant language
Assembly
Stars
16
Forks
0
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from a2stuff/intbasic

All issues in a2stuff/intbasic

Similar issues

More Operating Systems issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.