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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Reordering GS/OS directories
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Date: 5 Feb 91 17:54:19 GMT
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From dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons):

> Flushing the cache doesn't address the problem; the tricky part is
> when an FST has its *own* copy of some of the data on the volume.
>  (You could call this a "cached" copy, but it's not in the GS/OS
> Cache.) 

    Am I right in assuming that the ProDOS FST is restarted (or at leat re-
initialized) when returning from a ProDOS 8 program?  Prosel-8's Cat Doctor
happily sorts any folder on any ProDOS volume, and when GS/OS returns, the FST
doesn't have any problems with it.

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)