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From: stowekeller@pro-carolina.cts.com (Stowe Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: re: ProDOS FST and lowercase names
Message-ID: <8909070849.AA13070@trout.nosc.mil>
Date: 7 Sep 89 05:10:15 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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re: allowing lowercase-period = space chr in ProDOS filenames
 
        I can think of a good reason not to allow spaces in ProDOS filenames:
it would screw up all the existing command line shells for ProDOS which use
the space chr as a delimiter between multiple filenames, option switches, etc.

                        Stowe

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Stowe Keller                            Author of ProDOS8 LIST utility
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