Re: Disassembling an FST...

[someone@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner)]

In article <Pine.SV4.3.96.980915112324.9564A-100000@is6.slc.unisys.com>,
Marlin Allred <ma@is6.slc.unisys.com> wrote:

>But how well would existing applications work with this enhanced FST?
>
>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, David Empson wrote:
>
>> Who says ProDOS-8 needs to support this hypothetical new file system?
>> Doing so would be next to impossible unless it was specific to the IIgs,
>> and made use of native code to implement the file system (via hacks
>> through the global page, for example).

Existing applications would work just as well as they do with the
HFS.FST.  The thing about designing a different GS/OS filing system
is that it'd be allowed to be kept simple and it would be a lot easier
to write new utils for the FST that David Empson described than it
would be to do new ones for HFS.

Greg B.

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