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Shaul Wallach <F66204@BARILVM.BITNET> writes:
>      Here is a novice's programming question to which I haven't
> been able to find an answer in the books at hand. When you
> create a disk file using functions AH = 3C or 5B, DOS (i.e.
> INT 21H) returns a file handle in AX. However, these functions
> don't require any file-access code in AL. Can I assume that
> the file will be opened for write access, or must I first
> explicitly open the file with function 3D and a file-access
> code in AL and use the handle this function returns, ignoring
> the handle returned by function 3C or 5B?

O dear (:-), of course it is opened for write access! If you tell DOS
that you want to create a file, do you think it's that picky and doesn't
let you write to it?
BTW: have you tried it? That's a good method of getting ahead...

Chris