Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: question
Message-ID: <32525@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jun 89 18:07:45 GMT
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In article <691@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>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).
>				jason@madnix.UUCP

No, the interpretatin of HFS is done *on the AppleShare server*, not in
your GS.  There's no way to do a block read or block write of an AppleShare
volume.  The AppleShare FST uses high-level network protocols to talk to
the server.

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