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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HFS/MFS
Message-ID: <7304@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 01:36:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.7304
Posted: Tue Oct  6 01:36:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 07:09:46 EDT
References: <1005@oakhill.UUCP>
Organization: disorganized
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Keywords: With MacServe
Summary: What for?

In article <1005@oakhill.UUCP>, russ@oakhill.UUCP (Russell Schwausch) writes:
> In article <3443@pucc.Princeton.EDU> MJSCHMEL@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
> >
> >I need a comprehensive guide on how to prepare:
> >
> >      a) An 800k MFS disk
> >      b) A 400k HFS disk
> >
> 
> To get an 800K MFS Disk send $10 and a SASE to ...  %-)
> 
> If you have MacServe, here's how to roll your own 800K MFS disk:
...

You can get a 400k HFS disk by holding down the option key while initializing
a disk single-sided in a double-sided drive.  You can get an 800k MFS disk
by booting a Mac 512ke, Mac Plus, maybe SE, not likely Mac II with System
2.0 or older and then erasing or initializing a disk.  System 2.0 or older
will always produce an 800k MFS floppy while erasing a disk in a 128k ROM
machine or newer (if the disk is in an 800k drive).

Why you would need an 800k MFS floppy completely escapes me.  Programs which
cannot work with HFS are not written correctly for the Macintosh, and do
not work correctly in the strictest sense even with MFS.  One function of the
Trash Can is as a repository for such software.

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