Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: FST Idea (was Re: FST's) Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 18:55:56 GMT Article-I.D.: andrew.EZN5Ewm00XcP87UIJd References: <2634.cortland.info-apple@pro-houston> <5205@internal.Apple.COM>, <3762@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: <3762@puff.cs.wisc.edu> There has been a lot of talk about an HFS FST, DOS FST, that sort of thing, and the argument is whether it would be supported. From what I have seen, it doesn't matter. If I had the time, I would try going at such a beast myself, as my school is saturated with Macs and Apple File Exchange stinks (15 minutes for 400K on a Mac //). I am busy trying to remain a student and a GS version of Mac/IP. Some fella over at Stanford reasoned that Appletalk packets were flying over the Ethernet through the Gateway, why couldn't Macs send TCP packets through that Gateway to become TCP/IP clients? Apple didn't have an TCP driver for the Mac system. They probably wouldn't have been very hip to developing one, either. So he/they built their own into the program Mac/IP. It was so successful that now Apple, in system 6.0.3, included a wholly new and supported TCP driver with system 6.0.3. The Stanford team then rewrote Mac/IP to work with the new standard. It is unlikely that Apple will ever get around to such a thing for the Apple //gs, so I am writing it myself. System 5.0.6, 5.2, or 114.5 somewhere down the line may make it crash, but I'll either update the program or stick to a system that works. The same applies to FST's: If you have the means and the will to write a HFS FST, then DO IT and don't mind the talk on this net. If you write it, people will use and love it. If it doesn't work with the next system, then people will use the old system until there is an update, or Apple sees the error of its ways. Don't be afraid to hack. It's the American thing to do. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Jeremy Mereness | Support | Disclaimer: | | jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my | | r746jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | | a student at Carnegie Mellon U. | | Void where prohibited. | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------