Re: Disassembling an FST...

["Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu>]

There is supposedly a complete disassembly of the Prodos FST out there
somewhere. For some reason, it has not been made widely available. I do not
know if it was complete enough to actually build; I've never seen it, don't
remember who mentioned having it, etc.

Paul Schultz wrote in message ...
>
>It has been well documented here on csa2 in the past that the reason
>there is no FST specs/docs is that the interface between the FSTs and
>GS/OS was always modified whenever there was a new FST introduced.
>Also, there were some non-standard hooks into GS/OS. The bottom line
>was that things weren't as pretty and modular as the GS/OS reference
>would have you believe.
>
>At one time years ago, there was talk of disassembling one of the
>more stable FSTs (i.e., ProDOS) to see how things were done and also
>use it to write a new "ProDOS+" type of FST which would add some
>reasonable (do-able) features.
>
>But, like so many things with the Apple II in the last 5 years
>nothing ever came of this. Too bad...would have been nice.
>
>Paul.
>
>pschultz@med.wayne.edu
>Paul Schultz
>
>