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From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: How is GS/OS related to ProDos 8 or 16?
Message-ID: <444@fawlty.towers.oz>
Date: 29 Aug 90 07:36:28 GMT
References: <498@tci.UUCP> <1990Aug28.014507.20308@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: johnmac@fawlty.ips.oz (John MacLean)
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In article <1990Aug28.014507.20308@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>GS/OS is more the equivalent of System. Finder is a GS/OS application like any
>other, and the Desktop file is implemented in a totally different manner than
>the Mac. (If anybody at Apple is listening: does the Finder or the FST handle
>the desktop data implementation? If it's Finder, than naughty naughty, it
>should be the FST!!)
>
>Todd Whitesel
>toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

Why should the FST handle the desktop data file - it is an APPLICATION file,
just like any other application file. The finder is just another application
(as you said).
If Prosel wrote out a data file into each directory, or I write a utility
that writes a data file into each directory, then why should the FST
translate this (I presume this is what you meant - if not, what?).

IMHO the Finder data files between the Mac and the GS should have been made
compatible from the start, as should the toolbox interfaces, and the
PICT format, etc, etc.
Now as Apple tries to merge the lines (or at least make them talk to each
other much more easily) they have real problems.
Sure they made things better in a lot of areas, but they could of done this
in a way backwardly compatible with the old Macs in many areas (like they
did with color QD on the Mac).
They should have only deviated where they really had to, to support
better features, or where things are really bad (like no taskmaster).
It is a real pain swapping parameters, dereferencing pointers/handles,
changing function names etc when moving code from a GS <-> Mac.

John MacLean.

I know - its easy for me to say this now.
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