Re: MS-DOS FST?

[rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)]

In article <1993May1.145408.25982@ornl.uucp>, jlcooper@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jonathan L Cooper) writes:
> So, did anyone but me think that Jim Murphy seems to have implied rather
> indirectly that the MS-DOS FST will not be read-only?
> 
> 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.

But, IBM hardware will support 800K MFM disks, but not GCR disks.

Anyway, I think it would be stupid to have a read-only FST. What would be 
so hard about making it write too. (I mean, even I can understant the MSDOS 
file structure!!)

Store Resources in a seperate folder. (Much like PC Exchange's RESOURSE.FRK 
folder)

Later.......

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