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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Matt D. / MAC FST
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.145848.28405@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 14:58:48 GMT
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Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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In article <9001311847.AA29777@apple.com> NOSES@DBNINF5.BITNET (Achim Patzner) writes:
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>Have the people who are crying for a Mac-HFS FST ever asked themselves what
>they need that FST for? Sometimes I wonder...
>What would a FST do for you? It would enable you to transfer files from Mac
>volumes to GS/OS volumes... The same thing could be done by writing a

It would enable IIgs's to coexist in a Mac office environment, particularly
if AppleWorks is developed for the Mac or translators are developed that 
would allow the GS to read Mac data files.  This could help the whole II
family.

It would also let GS users in the university environment get along much more
easily than they do now.

>The Hirarchical File System doesn't provide exciting features that the GS/OS
>implementation of ProDOS doesn't have (correct me if I'm wrong). I think a

What HFS does provide that ProDos doesn't is hard drive volumes larger than
32 megs.  This is becomming an issue.  If you want to use the IIgs as a 
low cost server you need access to bigger disk volumes.


Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu