Re: oz dos or az dos???

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <55du2o$jbc@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>: In what ways? Most3.5" DOSs which came out (there are around five or so of
>: them) were all pretty much the same. Oz DOS comes with a lot more options
>: and programmer functions than most of the others, but the bottom line is
>: that they're all DOS 3.3, the SAME operating system.

>Is there a patch available to allow the DOS3.3 FST to recognize OZ-DOS
>disks?

   That's not exactly a little patch. You'd have to tweak the FST to
recognize 2 disks (volumes) on one 3.5" disk in addition to 1 140K
5.25" disk, you'd have to code in the accessing of both volumes, and a
bunch more things. Simpler to disassemble the FST, muck around with it
a lot, and recompile your own.

   There's also the issue of recognizing such disks as modified
DOS3.3, not ProDOS disks. I'm not sure where exactly the level of "Do
you recognize this disk" takes place-- if the FSTs tell GS/OS what
disk sizes/media they support, or GS/OS queries each one in some
(probably ProDOS, HFS, then everything else) fashion.

   Unfortunately, only Apple's made FSTs, and if anyone outside of them
knows, they ain't telling.

Nathan Mates
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