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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APW and System Disk 5.0
Message-ID: <33220@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 89 17:30:18 GMT
References: <3286564@ub.cc.umich.edu> <33206@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <33206@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) writes:
>WHAT?  I used APW and System Software 4.0 for a long time.  I've been
>using APW and System Software 5.0 for quite a while, too.  There are
>some obvious *cosmetic* problems (with SHOW UNITS, for example), but
>it *works*.  Who told you it didn't?

	Actually, APW is incompatible in one respect: it can't read
	non-ProDOS file systems, which leads me to believe they are 
	going to the block level and doing their own directory
	manipulations, instead of using GET_DIR_ENTRY.

Cary Farrier

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