Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

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

In article <2fqtvm$lap@altitude.hip.cam.org>,
Phillip Vandry <vandry@CAM.ORG> wrote:
>I got my resource central disk and there was a little patch on it called
>namefix. (Author: Tom Larson). It basically patches the P8 kernel and ProDOS
>FST to alleviate the file naming restrictions.

As I understand it, it's still not supposed to allow ":" because it is illegal
in many file systems.

>It seems to work flawlessly too.. It nearly fixes one or ProDOS's two biggest
>limitations!

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?