Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

Matthew Fischer (mfischer@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: 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
: 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

Apparently so :) I find underscores particularly attractive, I have to
admit :)

: compatibility, but I know that, given this new capability, people will come
: up with Apple-specific files with really bad filenames.

Yeah, but GSHK let's you rename those ... or unpack to HFS. But you are
right, this could get a Real Problem (tm). But then, the user's will
is his heaven ...

Soenke

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