Whap! Ideas
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Charlie,
It all depends on your definition of "bug" and "feature". I'll grant that
it's not necessarily a bug, but I wouldn't call it a feature, either. It's an
incompatibility.
According to the AmigaDOS User's Manual, section 1.3.1, page 1-2 ….
"The filing system allows filenames to have up to thirty characters, where the
characters may be any printing character except slach (/) and colon (")."
Use of the brace characters as 'tags' may be a nice feature of ARP when
they are implemented, but it is not compatible.
I will jump on the ARP bandwagon when and if it becomes officially
accepted and supported by CBM. Until then, it is not totally compatible with
the system as shipped with the Amiga and I cannot expect or assume that
everyone will be using it.
Best,
-jcs-
No, true; we will never get more than maybe 20% of Amiga owners using ARP
unless Commodore picks it up. I could write new stuff 26 hours per day and pay
people $10 per disk to use it, and we'd still never get everyone to use it.
Such is life.
True, you can put characters like "#?(|)" into file names, but nobody does
because they have to be ESCaped in order to be used. Similar with characters
like space and the Copyright symbol; if developers expect a program to be run
from CLI, they don't stick those characters in the file names.
Anyhow – here's a quick solution for the problem with BRACES, which will
probably solve the problem for WordPerfect – instead of typing the BRACE
character, type a "?" QuestionMark. This will match on any single character,
but should suffice; I haven't tried it, but think it should even handle
creating directories with the embedded {} characters.
…cheath