Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: question
Message-ID: <32545@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 89 14:07:15 GMT
References: <32419@apple.Apple.COM> <691@madnix.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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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).
>
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>				jason@madnix.UUCP
>	"I am opposed 180 degrees" - George Bush, master mixer of metaphors.
>	 	    (Is the IInix mailing group still out there?)

Well, no.  Not really.  AppleShare is it's own file system which is more or
less largely closely related not quite to HFS.  Dates are interpreted
differently, for one thing, and there are others that make AppleShare a file
system that is compatible with HFS but not identical.



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