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- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: HFS/MFS FST
- Message-ID: <3SEP199202543050@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 07:54:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca
- Organization: Concordia University
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- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
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- >In short, there are so many differences, it would basically be a
- >totally new FST. Since MFS disks are uncommon, there wouldn't be much
- >point in Apple wasting its time writing an MFS FST, when it has much
- >more important things to do.
-
- It's possible Apple could have written the Mac-FST to support both
- MFS and HFS volumes, although it'd most likely be -two- FSTs combined
- into one single FST translator file (too complex?). I doubt the SSW team
- will write a future MFS FST or support for MFS within the current HFS FST
- (since 400k Mac disks are rare), but there is another option....
-
- There's a program in the public domain called "MacTransGS" which can
- directly read Macintosh MFS floppies from a 3.5 drive (GS or //e).
- It's not nearly as nice as A2FX or HFSLink, but it gets the job done!
- (I believe it was written under AppleSoft BASIC -- MacTransGS)
-
- >David Empson
- >Internet: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz EMPSON_D@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- >Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
-
- Mitchell Spector
- spector@vax2.concordia.ca
-