Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[mfischer@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Matthew Fischer)]

In article <2g308s$557@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au>,
David E A Wilson <david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> wrote:
>ProDOS 8 (perhaps we should call it ProDOS 9?). Why Apple put these
>restrictions in ProDOS v1.0 I do not know (unless it was backwards
>compatibility with SOS on the Apple /// - in which case why did Apple
>restrict SOS (after all the DOS 3.x could always use a wider range of
>characters in file names and the Apple /// had a full keyboard with U/LC
>support)).

Am I alone in thinking that it's really annoying to type in filenames with
funny punctuation characters in them? I think letters, numbers, and periods
do the job just fine. I realise that the Patch :) increases cross-platform
compatibility, but I know that, given this new capability, people will come
up with Apple-specific files with really bad filenames.