Re: IIgs/PC Network Development

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dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>To make it look like a logical disk in Finder and other applications,
>you would have to write a GS/OS File System Translator for this virtual
>file system.
>
>Several possibilities come to mind:
>
>1. Write a GS/OS block device driver that communicates over the serial
>port, and (with help from the PC) implements a fake volume with an
>existing file system.
>
>This doesn't help, because you must emulate either ProDOS (32 MB limit)
>or HFS (unreliable).  It would also be extremely difficult to coordinate
>on the PC side, unless you actually implemented it as a massive disk
>image file, which defeats the whole purpose.

Once again, I propose DOS FAT.

Make the MS-DOS FST read/write and you could emulate MS-DOS.
That's perfect, because DOS FAT is actually on the PC side.

So you've solved two problems.  IIGS/PC Network Development
AND a bootable GS/OS that can be installed on a FAT partition.