diff --git a/SYS/KERNEL.S.FILE.txt b/SYS/KERNEL.S.FILE.txt
index 21c00266..2bbdf20c 100644
--- a/SYS/KERNEL.S.FILE.txt
+++ b/SYS/KERNEL.S.FILE.txt
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ K.FOPEN			jsr PFT.CheckPathSTK
 				>PULLW K.FOPEN.AUXTYPE
 				
 				>MLICALL MLIGETFILEINFO
-				bcc .10					Already Exists
+				bcc K.FOPEN.10			Already Exists
 				
 				bit K.FOPEN.MODE		Create if not exists ?
-				bpl .9					No, return MLI error
+				bpl K.FOPEN.9			No, return MLI error
 				
 				lda #S.FILEINFO.ACCESS.FULL				Yes, Create...
 				sta MLICALL.PARAMS+3	Access
@@ -46,17 +46,16 @@ K.FOPEN			jsr PFT.CheckPathSTK
 				lda #S.FILEINFO.STORETYPE.STD
 				sta MLICALL.PARAMS+7	
 				>MLICALL MLICREATE
-				bcc .10
-.9				rts
+				bcc K.FOPEN.10
+K.FOPEN.9		rts
 
-.10				>PUSHWI S.FILE.PRODOS
+K.FOPEN.10		>PUSHWI S.FILE.PRODOS
 				>PUSHBI S.MEM.F.INIT0
 				jsr K.GetMem
-				bcs .99
+				bcs K.FOPEN.9
 				
 				>STYA ZPQuickPtr1
-				stx hFILE
-				
+				stx hFILE			
 				
 				>PUSHWI 1024			get a ProDOS IOBUF
 				>PUSHBI S.MEM.F.ALIGN+S.MEM.F.NOMOVE
@@ -78,10 +77,20 @@ K.FOPEN			jsr PFT.CheckPathSTK
 				sta MLICALL.PARAMS+1	Next MLI Calls are REF_NUM based
 				
 				lda K.FOPEN.MODE
-				and #SYS.FOPEN.A		Append ?
-				beq .20
+				bit #SYS.FOPEN.W
+				beq .20					Write mode ?
 				
-				>MLICALL MLIGETEOF
+				and #SYS.FOPEN.A		Append ?
+				bne .11					yes, go to end of file
+				
+				stz MLICALL.PARAMS+2
+				stz MLICALL.PARAMS+3
+				stz MLICALL.PARAMS+4
+				>MLICALL MLISETEOF		no, reset size to 0
+				bcs .98
+				bra .20
+				
+.11				>MLICALL MLIGETEOF
 				bcs .98
 				
 				>MLICALL MLISETMARK
@@ -105,7 +114,7 @@ K.FOPEN			jsr PFT.CheckPathSTK
 				jsr K.FCloseA.1
 				pla						get back MLI error
 				sec
-.99				rts
+				rts
 *--------------------------------------
 K.FOPEN.MODE	.BS 1
 K.FOPEN.TYPE	.BS 1