Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Andrew L. Farris writes
>     Having yet not updated to system 6.0 due to memory constraints, I'm not
> familliar with it.. I heard somewhere that included with 6.0 is a Mac FST  
that
> lets you read macintosh formatted disks, is there any way I could get this
> FST, install it on my 5.0.4 disk and use it successfully under 5.0.4

Well, I'll just say now what MattD will say later...

	NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! (get the picture?? :)

	The HFS FST makes some calls that are alien to 5.0.4 and could cause  
some very unpredictable results (like maybe trashing some file devices). But if  
you do wish to experiment (I'm not liable for that) the FST does work ok for  
copying files from HFS to ProDOS and from ProDOS to HFS, but a) don't expect  
anything fancier than that - like running applications from the HFS volumes. b)  
do not format any HFS devices (mine crashed when I tried to do that to the RAM  
Drive). And c) just hope that it never returns an error.

	Moral of story : If you want to use the HFS FST, USE SYSTEM 6! Or if  
you just want to read HFS disks, there are some Prodos Programs like HFSLink  
that will let you read files from them

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