Re: 32-bit ProDOS FST

[just.dave@genie.com]

harold.h@genie.com (Harold Hislop) writes:

>I, and two other (very notable) IIgs programmers, have made some serious
>efforts twords cobbling this into a ProDOS-Like file system using words
>instead of bytes, longwords instead of words, etc. It looks very do-able,
>but it would =NOT= be a bootable file system. (unless a new boot stub
>and a bunch of other things were cobbled up)

This sounds cool.  Now the trick is to hack ProDOS 8 to be able to read this
filesystem.  That's where it's really needed.  Somehow, I think the required
hack to P8 will prove to be more difficult than the ProDOSKlone FST...

My BBS is what I need the space for, and it runs in ProDOS 8.  If I needed
that much space in GS/OS, I could use HFS partitions.  In ProDOS 8, we don't
have that luxury.  An FST won't help P8...
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