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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The FST story continues
Keywords: FSTs
Message-ID: <35363@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 89 01:04:00 GMT
References: <502@fawlty.towers.oz>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <502@fawlty.towers.oz> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean) writes:
>[...] so all you need is the directory structure and file manipulation.
>I remember putting Mac HFS and MFS reads into The Graphic Exchange in
>ONE WEEKEND before Applefest at the end of last year; quite a few bugs were
>uncovered later, but it shows that things are not as complex as some
>will have us believe.

John, I agree with almost everything you said.  I just have to point out
that *writing* to an HFS volume is more complicated than reading it (since
you have to rearrange the B-tree (or is it B*-tree?) directory structure
whenever you add, delete, or rename a file).  Bugs in *reading* a disk
are a nuisance, but any bugs in *writing* could destroy people's volumes.
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