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- From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
- Subject: Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:11:37 GMT
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- Andrew L. Farris writes
- > Having yet not updated to system 6.0 due to memory constraints, I'm not
- > familliar with it.. I heard somewhere that included with 6.0 is a Mac FST
- that
- > lets you read macintosh formatted disks, is there any way I could get this
- > FST, install it on my 5.0.4 disk and use it successfully under 5.0.4
-
- Well, I'll just say now what MattD will say later...
-
- NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! (get the picture?? :)
-
- The HFS FST makes some calls that are alien to 5.0.4 and could cause
- some very unpredictable results (like maybe trashing some file devices). But if
- you do wish to experiment (I'm not liable for that) the FST does work ok for
- copying files from HFS to ProDOS and from ProDOS to HFS, but a) don't expect
- anything fancier than that - like running applications from the HFS volumes. b)
- do not format any HFS devices (mine crashed when I tried to do that to the RAM
- Drive). And c) just hope that it never returns an error.
-
- Moral of story : If you want to use the HFS FST, USE SYSTEM 6! Or if
- you just want to read HFS disks, there are some Prodos Programs like HFSLink
- that will let you read files from them
-
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