Re: GS/OS: looking for info on VCB and FCB

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

> It sounds like you are looking at part of the internal layer of GS/OS
> which Apple never publically documented. GS/OS uses "File System
> Translators" (FSTs) to implement specific file systems, and I expect
> these are part of that layer.

It is part of GS/OS itself but are used by FSTs.

> Given that System 6.0.1 (with GS/OS 4.0.3, IIRC) is the last IIgs System
> version, if anyone does manage to come up with documentation for its FST
> layer, it might be feasible to write a third party one, as long as it
> doesn't require any capabilities beyond what the current FSTs can do.

Nothing more than knowledge on VCR and FCR, the FST internal call
entry point and the File System to implement.

> Which GS/OS version or IIgs System version were you looking at to derive
> the above information?

Latest GS/OS version on System 6.0.1. I have found the calls on a
French disassembly program and the rest of the above information from
my disassembly of the FSTs

> --
> David Empson
> demp...@actrix.gen.nz

Antoine