Re: Patched HS.FST or PRODOS.FST

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

InDizgize wrote:

     | working just fine.  The problem i'm having is that i can't seem
     | to access any file or directory that has a space in it.   I
     | recall some mention of a patched PRODOS.FST file for use
     | in accessing the files on GEOS formatted disks..  Is there a
     | patched HS.FST for use on CDs or does the HS.FST pass something
     | along to the PRODOS.FST?

Hmmm.  I know that patched PRODOS.FST (patching done by QuickFix; QFIX
should be on the FTPs or found within the 2qwk! OLR archived file) will
allow nonProDOS-legal characters to be used as filenames, but no idea
about spaces.  If you're talking from an HFS CD volume, spaces are not
an issue and you should be using the Jawaid's patched HFS.FST anyway.
If you're talking from an ISO-9660 volume, you may have trouble reading
data from the disk regardless of what kind of file it is and the name
isn't so much at issue (beside the MSDOS 8.3 tilde-for-more, and the
";1" at the end of each filename).  I have yet to get anything except a
file-list off of an ISO-9660 disk myself, textfiles don't work, etc;
unsure if using the MSDOS.FST in conjuction with the High Sierra driver
would take care of the naming/reading dispute cuz I haven't tried.  :)

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