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- From: milt@tenon.com (Milt Roselinsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Writing an external file system
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.212431.19810@tenon.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:24:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul14.002958.21099@alias.com>
- Organization: "Tenon Intersystems"
- Lines: 13
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- Russell Street <russells@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> writes:
- |Anyone got any idea how to write an external file system
- |for the Macintosh? IM only points me to Tech Support,
- |which apparently does not give much support (though I
- |have not tried there yet).
-
- In IM IV, there is an obscure reference to "eXternal File
- System Development Package for Foreign File Access". I was able to
- get this through dts, and used it to implement NFS as a XFS under MachTen.
- The package was a very nice headstart on what was required, with example
- code for a "read only" file system.
-
- milt
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