Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Greg Berigan (gberigan@cse.unl.edu) wrote:
: ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

: >I think the namefix uploaded is actually meant for System 6, not 6.0.1.
: >But I do use it, and really _LOVE_ it! All I want is really have file names
: >with spaces, not any !@#$%^&, and I now have it.

: I seem to remember long ago (pre System 6) someone had a patch that
: would allow spaces.  It merely allowed the period to be made lowercase
: and translated it to a space.  All applications could still use the file
: by having you use the capital version (the period) where there was a
: space.

I redownloaded the program not long ago. But it is not for System 6. But the
ProDOS namefix patch work much better than that program, IMHO.

Within a day, 90% of the files in my harddisk are now in more natural name,
like Beauty & Beast, Crazy 8s.

It is definitely the best thing to happen to ProDOS since GS/OS. Now I am
hoping someone can help to increase the size of the name space... so I can
write Beauty & the Beast seq, or Out of This World.

: I'd be happy with ProDOS 8 just being able to display all filenames as
: GS/OS sees them, including when from BASIC.System you CATALOG a file
: server (with the limitation of no non-ascii characters (TM, (C), etc.)).

Well, you can now do it in namefix.

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