Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?

[epatter@willamette.edu (Eric Patterson)]

In article <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU> alfarris@rodan.syr.EDU
(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? 
>
>-Drew

There is an FST that will read Mac HFS disks (800K or 1440K--NOT 400K single
sided disks, these are MFS format) in System 6.  BUT Apple has repeatedly
warned users NOT to use the HFS.FST file with any version of the GS System
other than 6.0.  It may appear to work for a while, but could likely crash
your disks at any random time.  The FST specifics are pretty solid, but have
changed enough from 5.x to 6.x that combining them is evidently very
dangerous.
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