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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: superdrive reads PC floppies?
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.225433.19401@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Nov 90 22:54:33 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.042100.17863@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov12.191023.7978@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) writes:

>However, this brings up a question that I have for the net.  I heard from
>someone directly that System 7 supports MS-DOS formatted disks within the
>Finder. Yet, I had someone else try it, and it didn't work under b1.

>Any clarification on this rumor?

  The original Apple documentation on System 7 mentioned that "hooks" would
be built into 7.0 to allow for foreign file systems to be handled
transparently at the Finder level, but that Apple would NOT be putting out
such a product themselves... instead leaving it for third parties to provide
the necessary utilities.

  Of course this is almost 18 months old news... who knows what they're up to
now?

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