Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

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

>The version I've seen makes a patch to reject the ":" character, but then it
>patches another part of the loop to jump over this test, so it still accepts
>":" as legal, even though it's not supposed to.

>>My question is: why have I not seen anything on this? Has nobody heard of it?
>>Maybe there's a catch and it's really not as good as it seems to be? :-)

>Well, Tom Larson posts in the Apple II FidoNet echo, and it's been discussed
>there. I mentioned the ":" bug, and he said he'd be releasing a new version
>that fixed it. Does the version you have allow ":"s in filenames?

Ah, OK, well someone asked me to post it here, so I did..

I can't see how it could allow ":" in filenames because this is interpreted as
a separator by GS/OS before the pathname gets to the File system translator
level.

I suppose the P8 version might allow ":", making the file inaccessible to
GS/OS, but I also suppose a patch to fix that would be MUCH more difficult
that the current patch because it would probably involve addition of code,
which can't be done by a patch.

Hey, it's a hack - I'm willing to live with the fact that I should be careful
what files I create (also, filenames with '/' in them, while probably
handled by GS/OS, would be inaccessible in P8)

-Phil