Re: ANNC: rDOS 3.3 FST for GS/OS

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Toinet" <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote in message 
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> On 28 f�v, 07:41, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Andy is perfectly right. The main objective was to understand the
> unpublished VCR and FCR structures as well as the mostly unknown
> behaviour of a FST. The RDOS format in itself is in no way
> interesting: simple VTOC, file data in contiguous blocks, etc.

It sounds like I lost my bet!

Congratulations on a great effort in understanding FSTs! I know you've been 
working at it for a long time. I'm glad to see you got the rewards for your 
work.

> - comment the MSDOS.FST so that somebody could play with it ;-)

My IIgs is more or less mothballed these days, but I'd be happy to help with 
advice and experience if someone wanted to try to turn it into a read/write 
FST.
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)