Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

Jim Murphy <murph@apple.com> writes:

>     These are my thoughts exactly. Simply hacking ProDOS so that it seems
>to support a character set that is different from its defined set is just
>plain stupid. Lots of programs reasonably and rightly assume that ProDOS
>file names contain a specific set of characters, and they cannot be
>guaranteed to work correctly, given a set of characters they don't expect.

Those of us who have installed the patch were aware of the problems it might
cause. If some program crashes because of it, I won't blame the program. I
feel the benefits outweigh the disadvantages (none of which I have
encountered yet!)

The alternative to patching an existing file system is writing a new and
better one (better than ProDOS, better than HFS), something I would gladly
do if I knew how! But since I don't...

-Phil