Re: Yet Another ProDOS Patch To Attempt...

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

> Jon Bettencourt (jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet) wrote:
> : Has anyone succeeded at patching ProDOS so it can use non-ProDOS file
> : names? You know, the file names that begin with periods or numbers,
> : contain lowercase letters, spaces, and/or punctuation? GeOS can do it,
> : Apple II Disk Manager can do it, but ProDOS can't. I can't access a file
> 
> Try looking at 2qwk! since it comes with a ProDOS patch (actually, a series
> of patches, because it patches several programs as well) for non-ProDOS
> file names.  I don't know if it does everything that you want, or if it will
> work for pre-existing files, but it is worth a try.  I forget the exacty
> pathname, but try:
> 
> ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/2/apple2/apple8/Comm/a2qwk/

Great! It worked... except now my emulator boots into GeOS. Now I can't
use my Applesoft BASIC programs. Any way to fix _that_? Did the patch
reverse the order in which it searched for a .SYSTEM file? If it did, can
I rename the GEOS.SYSTEM file to AGEOS.SYSTEM and still have GeOS if I
want it?

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