Re: Disassembling an FST...

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

It has been well documented here on csa2 in the past that the reason
there is no FST specs/docs is that the interface between the FSTs and
GS/OS was always modified whenever there was a new FST introduced.
Also, there were some non-standard hooks into GS/OS. The bottom line
was that things weren't as pretty and modular as the GS/OS reference
would have you believe.

At one time years ago, there was talk of disassembling one of the 
more stable FSTs (i.e., ProDOS) to see how things were done and also
use it to write a new "ProDOS+" type of FST which would add some
reasonable (do-able) features.

But, like so many things with the Apple II in the last 5 years
nothing ever came of this. Too bad...would have been nice.

Paul.

pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz