Re: MS-DOS FST?

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes)]

In article <1993May1.145408.25982@ornl.uucp> jlcooper@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU
(Jonathan L Cooper) writes:
>So, did anyone but me think that Jim Murphy seems to have implied rather
>indirectly that the MS-DOS FST will not be read-only?

Not really.

>He suggested that the FST will handle 800K MS-DOS format disks.  If this
>is true, the only way to format such a disk would be on an Apple IIgs.  PC
>exchange on the mac only wants to format 720K, and doesn't seem to support
>800K disks.  IBM hardware doesn't support it.

So, it was a theoretical statement.  Remember, such functionality might
be added in the future.

>He also talks about resource fork support.  If the FST will be read-only,
>the only reason to bother implementing the code will be pulling mac
>TrueType fonts off of MS-DOS disks.  :)

Again, the Mac can write to MS-DOS disks.  Nice try, but I think you've
been reading too much into his post.

>Jonathan Cooper                   |	If all the world's a stage,
>jlcooper@sacam.oren.ortn.edu      |	what am I doing in the 
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