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From: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.104821.5870@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
References: <1991Jan23.122800.6390@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <43109@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 91 15:48:21 GMT

In article <43109@ut-emx.uucp> ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>In article <1991Jan23.122800.6390@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>>   ORCA/C has a command to reorder directories, but it doesn't work on
>>hard disks, only on disks formatted with the ProDOS FST. I tried it, it
>>works on a 5"1/4 or 3"1/2 floppy, but not on my hard drive.
>
>Gee, how do you have your hard disk formatted? With the HFS FST? :-)
>There are only 4 FSTs right now, ProDOS, Character, AppleShare and High
>Sierra. Character and High Sierra won't work on a HD, and AppleShare is for
>file servers (currently for Macs only, I think). So, I'm almost positive
>your HD is formatted with the Prodos FST.
>
   I had a sneaky feeling I'd be putting my foot in my mouth with this
one. The logic I used was, ORCA says I can't change the directory,
manual warns that it only works with ProDOS FST, therefore my directory
isn't initialized with the ProDOS FST, Q.E.D.
   I heard through e-mail, though, that the ORCA command won't work on
active directories, either, and so you'd have to boot off a floppy to
change the order of files in some of the directories.

>David Huang                                 |
>Internet: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu        |     "My ganglion is stuck in


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