Re: FileFinder

[Bill North <north@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

In article <prtmgr2.780014387@sage.cc.purdue.edu>
Shawn Platkus, prtmgr2@sage.cc.purdue.edu writes:
>astdm@orion.alaska.edu writes:
>
>>I have a question for the author of FileFinder.  I got this from some ftp site
>>and I really LIKE it better then Apples File Find.  But since I got my CD I
>>noticed it will not search my CD for files.  I am using HFS formatted CDs. 
>>Will this work?  Can it be modified or will it only work with GS specific CDs?
>
>It doesn't have anything to do with CDs.  I has to do with Spaces in the volume
>names.  I'd have to check, but I think this is right.  I could have to do with
>the HFS format, but I doubt that.

This is not the famous "spaces in filename" problem.

Spaces in HFS names are handled correctly no matter
what the medium. Spaces in ISO 9660 (volume?) names
are apparently _not_ handled correctly by the HS.FST.
GS+ magazine had an extensive article on this, and a
program (CD-ROAM) that allowed access to these volumes.

If the FileFinder program uses GSOS calls, it should
work properly on all HFS volumes, although it may not
show the HFS unique info. If it is an old program and
"hardcoded" in prodos limitations, then it will likely
choke on HFS and Dos3.3 volumes.

Programs like prosel that twiddle directly with the
disk structure also fail on non-prodos volumes.

/*  Bill North -- north@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov  */