MS-DOS FST?

[laer.haider@ozonehole.com (Laer Haider)]

jlcooper@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jonathan L Cooper) writes:

JLC>He suggested that the FST will handle 800K MS-DOS format disks.  If this
>is true, the only way to format such a disk would be on an Apple IIgs.  PC
>exchange on the mac only wants to format 720K, and doesn't seem to support
>800K disks.  IBM hardware doesn't support it.

Not so oh uninitiated one.  Well, I don't know about IBM's hardware, but
most modern MS-DOS boxes can format, read, and write, 180K, 360K, 720K,
800K, 820K, 830K, 850K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 1.49MB, and 1.53MB.  And that's
just the 5.25" drive (drive cost: $59 retail).  The 3.5" drive can
format, read, and write at: 720K, 800K, 830K, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 1.49MB,
1.68MB, and 1.74MB (drive cost: again, $59 retail).  Of course, most
disk utilities won't recognize all these formats, and you need a 256byte
device driver for all of them to work properly (I use one called
INT13X).  Also, with the proper driver, I can read and write Mac and
ProDOS disks on my MS-DOS box.

JLC>He also talks about resource fork support.  If the FST will be read-only,
>the only reason to bother implementing the code will be pulling mac
>TrueType fonts off of MS-DOS disks.  :)

Snide comment about Apple's support for the IIgs repressed...
I'd like to see full support for MS-DOS formatted disks.  But read-only
would be better than nothing.

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