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Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

Subject: Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
From: Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPShome.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:37:28 GMT
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In article <xRtP6.77265$ff.594800@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, ralmin
<xbiber@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> (Which used MFS rather than HFS. I read that MFS doesn't truly support
> directory hierarchies, no two files may have the same name even if in
> different folders.)

That's true. In MFS, directories were purely synthetic. Later versions
of Mac OS gave up supporting the deception (before giving up on MFS
altogether).

On the other hand, under MFS we had longer file names than we do now.

G

References:
- How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: Ted Shoemaker <nospam@newsranger.com>
- Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: perynoid@oklahoma.net (Perry Noid)
- Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: "Steve W. Jackson" <steve.w.jackson@mindspring.com>
- Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: "ralmin" <xbiber@bigpond.net.au>

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