Re: Patched HS.FST or PRODOS.FST??

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Cturley2 writes ...
> 
> Thanks for the HS FST patch Rubywand.  I forgot to include the src. codes for
> that FST  disassembly with the rest today.  Guess I should send it also to make
> it all complete.  I was reading some messages and threads a few days back on
> the A2 Delphi forum and there is a lot of interesting things under discussion
> in them - including patching several FST's and so on.  They were also
> considering a review of the disassembly src. codes of the FST's.  It even seems
> our STAR IIgs programmer would be interesting in reviewing the src. codes of
> the disassembly for the FST's.
> 
> I'll bet with such a review of such disassembled FST src. codes and even some
> feedback from the authors of them all (if they could be located ;-) would allow
> many of the litations and problems with the GS/OS FST's to be overcome and
> modified for the better.
> 
> Your Patch to the HS FST is sure a good start.
 ....

     Thanks. Really, most of the credit goes to Jawaid for describing the patch in
an article and to Jeff for mentioning it.

     The discussions about modifying File System Translators, especially the ProDOS
FST (to get beyond the 32MB volume limit) are pretty interesting.



Rubywand