Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!NewsNG.Chicago.Qual.Net!128.174.5.49!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer1.sprintlink.net!news-in-east1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!cyclone.swbell.net!typhoon01.swbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <37460FDC.599052C8@swbell.net> From: Rubywand Reply-To: rubywand@swbell.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Patched HS.FST or PRODOS.FST?? References: <37449f33.2262072@news> <19990520211505.15592.00002963@ng29.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 47 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:01:00 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.193.9.16 X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: typhoon01.swbell.net 927338197 207.193.9.16 (Fri, 21 May 1999 18:56:37 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 18:56:37 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2:147949 InDizgize writes ... > > Jeff Blakeney writes..... > > >The second program (a temporary init actually) was called Dr. Bazyar > >and was published in v7 n1 (Sep/Oct 1995). The idea for this program > >came from Jawaid Bazyar which is how it got its name. This program > >simply patches the HS.FST once it gets loaded to change the lowest > >valid character in a volume/file name from $30 (the number 0) to $20 > >(a space). This means that ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . and / are also > >considered valid characters. > > Well that sounds to be exactly the thing I need.. My only other option at > the present is to re-burn the CD replacing all the spaces in the file names > with periods.. Needless to say I'm not in favor of that idea. > > >Now for the bad news. As these programs were published in GS+ > >magazine, they are copyrighted and are not available except on the > >used market. Someone bought the rights to EGO Systems stuff a while > >back but they have not done anything with the stuff that I am aware > > Damn.. Well with any luck someone might see this and have some idea what > became of this stuff.. Somebody?? Anybody??? .... Given Jeff's description of the patch, it should be easy to do. So, I did a patch program which changes the HS.FST. The HS.FST code normally does a check for chars below $30 (an ASCII "0") in value. (The code has already checked for and passed a $2E, period, char.) It appears to send the user to an error routine if a non-period char below $30 is found. The patcher just changes the $30 (below "0") check to a $20 (below SPACE) check as recommended by Jawaid. The patched HS.FST should allow spaces in file names. (It should allow other $2x ASCII chars, too.) The patcher file is called "HSFSTSpacerSHK.bin" on 'Cabi. Use ShrinkIt or GS-ShrinkIt to unshrink the file on your GS. Info is included in a text file named "HSFSTspcInfo.TXT". This stuff is at ... http://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/System/ . Let me know how the patched HS.FST works. Rubywand