Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM,GS,Mac Message-ID: <43897@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 13 Aug 90 05:09:53 GMT References: <9008122209.AA18535@apple.com> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 In article <9008122209.AA18535@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: >[...] >Actually, I -DO- know what they do...(they're used to access disks of other >formats). I just don't know, exactly, how they go about doing it... and >that's basically what I said. The job of GS/OS File System Translators is to let applications access files on different kinds of disks, without the application having to know or care what kind of disk it is. As long as an application doesn't go and try to read blocks directly off disk, or assume that filenames will only be 15 characters, or stuff like that (see GS/OS Reference and the GS/OS Technical Notes), it just "works." Currently there are File System Translators for ProDOS, AppleShare, and High Sierra/ISO 9660. There are likely to be more in the future. (Because of the way GS/OS is designed, all FSTs will come from Apple for the forseeable future.) -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II Developer Technical Support | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.