Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1994Jan3.222650.7878@decvax.dec.com>, Cum dignitate otium writes...
> 
> The popular operating systems at that time were CP/M and the
> newly-hatched MS-DOS, both of which restricted things even further,
> limiting names to 8 and 9 characters respectively,

    MS-DOS is still limited to 8+3...

> Rename MUMBLE.EXE, and MS-DOS won't be able to run it.

    On the flip side, an absolute newbie with just a modem and a simple
terminal program with XModem or Kermit can download a self-extracting
version of PKZIP and go from there.  We have to fiddle with Binary II,
or changing the file/auxtype (which isn't the most obvious thing a
newbie would do), or using Executioner format, or whatever.
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