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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Exchanging between different computers
Message-ID: <44439@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 Aug 90 03:31:29 GMT
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In article <1990Aug30.190708.20402@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>
>Why hasn't APPLE done it yet? A simple port of Apple File Exchange (you'd
>have to recompile the modules or write new ones of course) would work nicely.
>
Because if you actually *knew* anything about Apple File Exchange instead of
taking the easy but popular stance that every unexplored capability is a
breach of faith by Apple Computer, you'd know that it's designed around
the Macintosh operating system and would require serious redesigning to work
on any other platform.  It was a third-party program called "PassPort" which
Apple purchased because it was so useful.

>Apple File Exchange needs to have its prodos driver rewritten, anyway -- it
>takes FOREVER to write out to a prodos disk. Even AppleShare is faster (jeez).
>
Gee...something designed for the Apple II is better at Apple II things than
a Macintosh.  Imagine that.

We do have a faster Macintosh-based ProDOS disk driver.  It's called
"DuplicateIIgs", and is one of the MPW IIgs cross-development tools.  It
started as the guts from AFE as an MPW tool and was subsequently enhanced
to be much faster and copy resource forks.  Re-integrating it back into
Apple File Exchange hasn't been easy, apparently.

>Chan Wilson's program reads HFS disks as fast as the P8 disk driver will go.
>
So does ProDOS.  What's your point?  Apple File Exchange couldn't use the
"ProDOS disk driver," anyway, since it doesn't run on an Apple II.

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