Re: ][

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) wrote:
> Sid left this scat:
>
> MC(S| May I ask that we stop using ][ in the file title to designate
>     | the Apple II?  Apple's prodos will not recognize anything except
>     | letters and numerals in file or message titles and it is
>     | impossible to delete any topics that use ][.  Thank you.
>
>Just how much can I hold my tongue on this...  I've told you in the past
>that if you patch ProDOS with NameFix (superseded now by QuickFix)
>ProDOS will recognise stuff that it didn't before, and said patch is
>completely safe.  And if your computer is too inflexible to delete
>things because of a couple characters, you're doing something wrong.
>Asking us all to refrain from not using two keystrokes is silly.

So, you want to do what you want to do, and it's up to the rest of us to 
figure out how to access it? <g>  This reminds me of the early days of 
the IIe, when certain people (including one major Public-Domain vendor) 
insisted on using a DOS patch that allowed them to put lower-case text in 
their disk catalogs.  This, of course, made life miserable for those of us 
still using II+'s at the time.

I wrote that vendor and complained, and he told me that it was =my= fault, 
that I should go right out and drop several grand on a new IIe system.

TomZ