Re: Qfix - Prodos names

[phoenyx <phoenyx@texas.net>]

phoenyx wrote:

> I found a cool little utility which patches Prodos to accept almost
> any character in it's file names.  It's called Qfix. The program
> is a little buggy but it does it's job. I have tried it on my emulators.
>
> It's kinda neat to use something besides the period as a file
> name seperator. Of course there are some utilities which doesn't
> let you use those names, like Glenn Bredon's BlockWarden. It
> won't let you type in a non-prodos character. Don't know if
> this will be useful to anyone, but I like it. Reminds me of the
> old Dos 3.3 days.
>
> PS for those who know me as BluPhoenyx from AOL. I finally
> learned enough about Linux to get my ISP and Mail working.
> Now I get all kinds of messages in the news-groups which
> I was missing before.
>
> BluPhoenyx

Heres an ftp site with Qfix

ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/pub/apple2/8bit/patches/

or for just the  file try
ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/pub/apple2/8bit/patches/qfix2.shk

Phoenyx