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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
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Date: 25 Jan 91 16:52:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.122800.6390@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <43109@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Jan25.104821.5870@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Jan25.104821.5870@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
|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.

Ah,I see... Well, it won't work off the disk you booted off of since some
files remain open and GS/OS won't let you do a block write on a device that
has open files. So you would have to boot off of another disk and then run
orca's directory arranger thing.

> Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student  | "Shtarker! Zis is KAOS!
> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca    Ad astra! | Vee do not 'yippee yo
> cneufeld@{pnet91,pro-cco}.cts.com               | kye aye' here!"
> "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" |      Siegfried of KAOS


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