Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!apple!REEKES@applelink.apple.com From: REEKES@applelink.apple.com (Jim Reekes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7 re-verify Message-ID: <13023@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 12 Apr 91 09:50:06 GMT References: <12998@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Apr12.120202.3411@waikato.ac.nz> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Lines: 13 In article <1991Apr12.120202.3411@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: > > What will this mean for existing versions of disk fixers like > Disk First Aid and the Nortilities? Will they see those blocks > as in use, but not belonging to any file, and simply put them > back on the free chain? This is why I wrote the Tech Note, and exactly why it was released months before System 7 shipped to users. Some low level utilities may have to be updated. The information in the Tech Note makes is clear to developers what they can expect from the new Disk Init Package. Jim, Mac Toolbox Engineer