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V1.2 filesystem goodies



Dear Folks,

People have been asking me about what's going to be in V1.2, other than  
complete printing support and Word 5.0 support.  The other major  
difference will be the filesystem.  It's not totally clear what will be  
in V1.2 and what will have to wait, but here's what things look like now. 


V1.2 may have the ability to read and write directly to hard disks.  I'm  
putting in the code to do that, although there are a couple of questions  
I need the answer to before I can be sure that it will be done on time.   
I was hoping to have most of the cool filesystem stuff in the Excel beta  
testers copy.  With Sophy competing tomorrow I won't get to spend any  
time on it then, leaving only the rest of today and Sunday to do a whole  
bunch of work.  I hope to have some good filesystem stuff in for the  
first round of Excel testing, but even it it doesn't all make it in by  
Sunday night, I'm still ahead of schedule.

V1.2 cool file stuff (+ denotes a feature that probably won't be in the  
first Excel beta testers copy, * denotes a feature that may not make it  
into V1.2 (implies +) ):

	Access to the entire UNIX filesystem (i.e. no need to "dwrite")
	Support for multiple floppies
	*Support for hard disks
	+bugfixes for:
		stuffit
		compactor pro
		Apple's installer (necessary for Word5 and Excel3)
	+GatorBox support
	+NFS/share support
	*uShare support
	Access to floppies and hard disks directly from Executor and the  
programs that Executor runs
	*HFS_XFer and Executor merged

The side effect of all this is that the documentation will not be done by  
the time the software is, but we'll be willing to send the software  
before the docs are ready if people are interested.

	--Cliff