Re: Wonderful ProDOS patch!

[grebben@pro-greens.benton-city.wa.us (Michael Stipe)]

 >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?

Having just talked with him, here is the deal: As of version 1.6
which was just posted online last night, the prodos8 script does
not allow colons in filenames. The prodos.fst script probably
allows slashes (p8 seperator) although I haven't checked it.

 >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)

Exactly. You could also create a filename that was all spaces and
make life difficult for people using cli environments, but why?

A future version of the prodos.fst script may screen out slashes
(by modifying the code to check for 0x20 to 0x60 you no longer need
to check 0x30 to 0x39 (numbers) or for periods, plenty o' room :).



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