Re: Disassembling an FST...

[mikew50@aol.com (MikeW50)]

>Breaking the 32MB limit for the ProDOS FST would be
>cool and would it not be possible?

Well, no. Not really.

TO make this work, you would have to, as a minimum:

1. Allow larger sector bit maps. (Probably not a problem, although the
resulting disks might not work with ProDOS 8.)

2. Change the size of a block _or_ change the size of the integer used to hold
a block number. Either of these changes would break a frightening number of
programs.

And that's assuming you went to all the work to disassemble the ProDOS FST, or
that someone let a copy of the source slip off of their desk when you visited
them at Apple. Is it really worth that much effort when there is an HFS FST?
Maybe... I guess that's a decision for whoever might undertake the project.

Mike Westerfield