Hey, I'm prepping to make a video on Apple II ProDOS and as a first step I am trying to become familiar with the specifics of the DOS. I have noticed that pathnames are a thing and getting to a file can often require a fully qualified path, going from the volume-name onwards. Fair enough....
Having formatted a disk (using Filer) I had volume names which were a bit long, and as these are required to be typed in, I thought it would be good to rename these volumes to make the names shorter and therefor easier to work with. For this I used the Volume Rename util, and, this is odd, when I rename, it shows the current name in the text field, which is OK, BUT it also won't let me press space to delete any characters from it. I understand DELETE is not a thing on Apple II, so AFAIK the only way to delete characters is to replace them with spaces, right?
So right now, lets say my volume name is MONKEYGRINDER, I can only change it to a string with the same length. I can't shorten it. And this is proving to be a PITA.
So, that aside, I checked in with the great Google AI and asked, can I do this from BASIC and it says yes and shows the syntax on how to to this.
RENAME /OLDNAME / NEWNAME
But this does not work. I am assuming that (as per usual) the AI has been huffing authority gas again and is talking nonsense. So should this work? Im' guessing not?
Cheers
Retronaut
Having formatted a disk (using Filer) I had volume names which were a bit long, and as these are required to be typed in, I thought it would be good to rename these volumes to make the names shorter and therefor easier to work with. For this I used the Volume Rename util, and, this is odd, when I rename, it shows the current name in the text field, which is OK, BUT it also won't let me press space to delete any characters from it. I understand DELETE is not a thing on Apple II, so AFAIK the only way to delete characters is to replace them with spaces, right?
So right now, lets say my volume name is MONKEYGRINDER, I can only change it to a string with the same length. I can't shorten it. And this is proving to be a PITA.
So, that aside, I checked in with the great Google AI and asked, can I do this from BASIC and it says yes and shows the syntax on how to to this.
RENAME /OLDNAME / NEWNAME
But this does not work. I am assuming that (as per usual) the AI has been huffing authority gas again and is talking nonsense. So should this work? Im' guessing not?
Cheers
Retronaut