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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS FSTs, Desktop/Finder, etc
Message-ID: <9869@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Mar 89 01:10:10 GMT
References: <8903171111.aa07585@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8903171111.aa07585@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") writes:
>restrictions on filenames, volume size, etc.  That's okay.  I don't
>see a need for a new file system to be invented at this time, since
>existing ones are good:

It's the restrictions on filenames and volume size that we want FIXED!
I'm another GS user who would already have acquired an 80-300Mb SCSI
disk if the OS would only have supported it reasonably.

If HFS.FST will support such disks, then fine.  Give us one.  Is the
hold-up simply fixing all the Apple II tools to cope with the resource
forks?