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From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: question
Message-ID: <691@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 21:37:33 GMT
References: <8906132356.AA22785@crash.cts.com> <32419@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
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In article <32419@apple.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>In an article pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-lep!kermie@nosc.mil writes:
>> [Some stuff about rumored FSTs on SysDisk 5.0]
>
>	The only new FST on System Disk 5.0 will be the AppleShare FST.

	Doesn't AppleShare effectively "interpret" HFS? If this is the case,
then it would seem that a MFS/HFS FST (or FSTs) wouldn't be a whole lot
different, with the major exception being where the lower level info comes
from (AppleTalk vs. a disk).

>	What do you mean by "an official disk format GS.OS FSTS"?

	I think there are still a number of people who can't quite make a
clean break between an OS and a File System and, as such, really expect there
to be a specific "GS/OS" disk format of some sort. I think that this is
becoming a bit more confusing because of the ProDOS 8 incompatibilities
introduced - namely forked files. So, is it REALLY ProDOS, or is it a
"GS/OS specific ProDOS"? It seems a bit more like the latter to me... I
personally would have preferred leaving the ProDOS filesystem alone, and
using HFS for partitions, but then again, I'm not in control of this stuff :)

>Cary Farrier


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