Re: Disassembling an FST...

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>cDavid Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> 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).

Well, if P8 apps running on a //gs cannot read this new filesystem then
it should not be called ProDOS or any variation on that. It is a brand new
file system.

>I thought the main goal would be a "ProDOS enhanced" FST for GS/OS.
>This would be a better fit for GS/OS's virtual file system (HFS requires
>some workarounds to be used on the IIgs, and isn't particularly
>efficient due to problems like reversed byte ordering).

You could call it GSFS. Your other points seem reasonable.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au