NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/12862

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From: [e-mail] (anisko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: OS/2 HPS and Atari file format
Keywords: Compatible???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:08:44 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Dayton
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark Newton-John) writes:
>Thanks for the traffic about OS/2 and TOS, here is another.
>
>Now that OS/2 can name files with more than eight characters with
>it's HPS, what does that do to the ability for Atari to read IBM
>format disks?
>
>I'm sure that IBM machine will be able to read Atari files (under
>the old filename system) could an Atari read files created under
>OS/2's high performance filesystem?

   Just a general guess, but I would suppose that since you can install
different filesystems under Mint (like Minix) then someone would probably
write a filesystem for OS/2.  I wonder if this would also be possible to
do it this way with MAC disks?  I'm a novice when it comes to filesystem
files, etc, but that is my general impression of what they do.

   I doubt it will be "built-in" to TOS directly, but instead it would
probably be released as a TOS extension, at least that way they keep the
compatibility with the present ST's/DOS machines, and then could add
the OS/2 stuff for those who need it...

                    Robert Anisko
                    [e-mail]