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From: kim@analog.UUCP (Kim Helliwell          )
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Subject: HFS/MFS on 400K disks
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Date: Mon, 7-Apr-86 11:21:31 EST
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I finally figured out the trick of formatting 400K disks as HFS disks--you
apparently have to hold down the option key throughout the whole operation,
not just at the beginning!

This raises the following question in my mind:  Why did Apple choose MFS as
the default for 400K disks?  It seems to me that most people would want to
have every disk formatted as HFS, no matter what, except for a few cases,
in which one would hold down the option key to force MFS.  This would
by extension work for both 400K and 800K disks, and would be much more
intuitive and consistent with the spirit of the Mac interface (OK, my
opinion!).

Given that the above is what I want, is there any easy way to patch things
to make HFS the default for 400K disks and reverse the meaning of the
option key?  Ideally, this sort of thing would be in a resource, wouldn't it?

Kim Helliwell
hplabs!analog!kim

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