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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The FST story continues
Summary: Apple Working on Mac FST
Keywords: MAC FST HFS
Message-ID: <4159@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 22:30:01 GMT
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Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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At AppleFest recently an Apple Employee let it slip that Apple was working
on an HFS FST.  We had asked about FST's for the new SuperDrive and he 
said 'Gee we haven't even shipped the HFS FST for the 800K drives yet and
you already want them for the SuperDrive'.  We said 'Ah-Haaa so you are 
working on an HFS FST' and the guy said 'Oops I guess I shouldn't have said
that (wink, wink)'.  He really spilled his guts then and said that they had 
been using the HFS FST all over Apple internally for quite a while but it took
Apple forever to release stuff like that because they tested it for a long time
then documented the final source code, wrote tech notes, modified manuals, etc.
etc.  All of which takes time.  The impression we got was that it was very near
to release.

I hope Apple doesn't wait for the next major upgrade to GS/OS to ship it.  
Just include it in new copies of System 5.02, and distribute it through
APDA or the online services.  We desparately need it.  I hope you Apple
folks on line will pass this on to the powers that be.

Rick