Apparently ProLine used the aux type field on subdirectories to hold extended file permissions.
Right now, ProDOS_FileEntry ignores attempts to update the aux type for directories. I don't remember there being a reason for this other than that it's a bit weird to do it. The CLI app will try to update it, the GUI disables the edit field.
We don't normally display the DIR aux type. The CLI displays the aux type in "wide" catalog listings and in set-attr output, and it's visible in the GUI edit-attributes dialog. I'm not sure we need more than that.
fadden
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6 months ago
Apparently ProLine used the aux type field on subdirectories to hold extended file permissions.
Right now,
ProDOS_FileEntryignores attempts to update the aux type for directories. I don't remember there being a reason for this other than that it's a bit weird to do it. The CLI app will try to update it, the GUI disables the edit field.We don't normally display the DIR aux type. The CLI displays the aux type in "wide" catalog listings and in set-attr output, and it's visible in the GUI edit-attributes dialog. I'm not sure we need more than that.