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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Volume size on GS/OS system
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.093042.25434@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:30:42 GMT
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- ma@unislc.uucp (Marlin Allred) writes:
-
- >I have not seen the answer in any of the documentation that I have read
- >but does anyone know if it is possible to have a volume size that is
- >greater than 32 megabytes without using the HFS FST? Since GS/OS has its
-
- Sure! With the HS.FST (CD ROM), the AppleShare FST ...
-
- >own calls can they be used to open files on a big volume without using
- >the ProDOS FST? It appears from the documentation that files on a disk
- >can only be accessed through one of the FSTs installed on the system.
-
- That's exactly the case. After all, FST stands for File System Translator,
- and without an FST, GS/OS has no idea how to organize files on a disk. I
- really do wish there was a built-in way to treat a disk as a single file,
- sort of like the way you can treat unix devices as files. It's easy to
- write a GS/OS program that does it, though (I wrote one so I could take
- stuff to the SPARC at work); GS/OS is just a teeny bit too dependent on
- pathnames for its own good.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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