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- From: epatter@willamette.edu (Eric Patterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?
- Message-ID: <Bx9ps4.ELr@willamette.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 00:09:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: willamet.Bx9ps4.ELr
- References: <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU>
- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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- In article <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU> alfarris@rodan.syr.EDU
- (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?
- >
- >-Drew
-
- There is an FST that will read Mac HFS disks (800K or 1440K--NOT 400K single
- sided disks, these are MFS format) in System 6. BUT Apple has repeatedly
- warned users NOT to use the HFS.FST file with any version of the GS System
- other than 6.0. It may appear to work for a while, but could likely crash
- your disks at any random time. The FST specifics are pretty solid, but have
- changed enough from 5.x to 6.x that combining them is evidently very
- dangerous.
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