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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!ericsc
- From: ericsc@microsoft.com (Eric Schlegel)
- Subject: Re: How to write a software that simulate a disk drive (volume)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.172036.1239@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:20:36 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1gnbguINNmr7@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <1992Dec16.220502.25022@netcom.com>
- Keywords: question, disk drive, volume, big problems, wizards wanted
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Dec16.220502.25022@netcom.com> creiman@netcom.com (Charlie Reiman) writes:
- >arminl@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Armin Luetkenhaus) writes:
- >
- >>I'm going to write a piece of software that simulates a disk drive
- >>on the Macintosh.
- >>I want to mount a drive, i.e. make it appear on the desktop, make it
- >>accessible to all file system calls and map these calls to my own
- >>routines.
- >
- >Writing an external file system (High Sierra, Messy DOS mounters, etc)
- >is a sticky, nasty, unfun business. The path of least resistance seems
- >to be Apple's XFS, which is buried under much offical voodoo. It's
- >tough to get any docs for it and Apple keeps saying 'It'll change! Stay
- >away! Keep back! We're warning you!'
-
- Has anyone else noticed that Apple's PC Exchange product *includes* the
- fabled File System Manager, described at the '89 WWDC as a possible technology
- in System 7? At any rate, the gestaltHasFileSystemManager bit is set in the
- return value from gestaltFSAttr when PC Exchange is installed. Now if only
- they'd document it...
-
- -eric
- -----
- My opinions, not Microsoft's.
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