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- From: mday@apple.com (Mark Day)
- Subject: Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <mday-051192152426@daybreak.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:27:11 GMT
- References: <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU>, alfarris@rodan.syr.EDU
- (Andrew L. Farris) wrote:
- >
- > 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?
-
- Don't try it. You should NEVER, EVER, mix parts of the OS between
- different
- versions of system software. In fact, there were small changes in the
- interface between the OS and FST's going from 5.0.4 to 6.0 which might make
- the HFS FST work wrong under 5.0.4.
-
- ---
- Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
- mday@apple.com
-