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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: HFS/MFS on 400K disks
Message-ID: <3235@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Apr-86 20:16:58 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 19 20:16:58 1986
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In article <1009@runx.OZ> baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
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>The advantage of defaulting 400K disks to MFS is for the benefit of all the 
>people out there who have 400K SS drives like me. If someone neglected to
>format my SS disk to MFS, copied some documents to it, and handed it to me, I
>could not use it! In fact, it is in the spirit of macintosh that it be done
>this way (and not as you suggest).

Another use of 400K HFS disks I've found occurs when you want to put a *large*
number of files on the floppy.  400K MFS has a limit of ~100 files (unless you 
tweak the directory) and this doesn't work for things like HD Util and
MacZap Patcher.  Both of those programs have well over 100 patch files.  No
problem with HFS!

-Chris

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Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD
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