Re: ANNC: rDOS 3.3 FST for GS/OS

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

In comp.sys.apple2 Peter Watson <paw77@n_o_hotmail_s_p_a_m.com> wrote:
> Sadly, if I was a betting man I'd wager they merely took the DOS 3.3 FST and 
> hacked it to make it work with rDOS. It's still a great effort, but a long 
> way from writing an FST from scratch.  :-(

DOS and RDOS don't have much in common.  The Pascal FST is probably closer
in principle.

What makes it remarkable isn't the access to RDOS -- there's a lot of ways
to do that and not much reason to do it -- it's having a working FST that
Apple didn't write.

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