Re: Sweet16 plans

[Michael Kent <n.kent@webtv.remove.this.com>]

Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote:

> There are two missing FSTs in GS/OS:

I'd say 2-1/2.  :-)

The first FST on my wish list would be a complete MS-DOS FST that is:
     a) readable, writeable, and initable
 and b) not limited to disks or disk-sized volumes

This would in theory allow you to pull CF cards from cameras and other
computers and use them on the GS desktop without any intermediaries.

> - HFS+
> A really complex one which I believe is impossible to write from
> scratch.

Yup.

> - FTP:
> Make it work like on Mac OS/X (with GS/OS equivalent with Marinetti)
> - let the user enter the server address (FinderExtension),
> - create a device (just like MountIt or EasyMount),
> - any calls to the device will be translated by the FTP FST to its
> device driver or directly sent through Marinetti
> You will have to deal with all the different FTP servers ;-)

Hey, someone else thought of that!  I remember thinking when Marinetti
first came out, "Too bad Apple dropped GS support.  With Marinetti you
might be able to write an FTP FST, and then you'd really have something."

It would seem to me to be more difficult to implement than the other two,
but I'm not a coder.  I'm just an idea man.  :-)

There are a couple of others that to me would make life on the GS very
interesting:

1) FAT32

2) EtherShare -- Allow you to mount a drive served on an Ethernet network
like AppleShare allows across an AppleTalk network.

3) Disk Image -- Allow disk images to work like other volumes.  This one
would be tough, since you'd need to be able to nest FSTs (i.e. a ProDOS
disk image on an HFS volume).  I can't imagine you'd be able to make this
work without re-writing part of the GS/OS kernal.  But I could be wrong --
I'm not a coder.  :-)

Mike

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