Re: 5.0.4 and Mac FST?

[mday@apple.com (Mark Day)]

In article <ALFARRIS.92Nov4133307@rodan.syr.EDU>, alfarris@rodan.syr.EDU
(Andrew L. Farris) wrote:
> 
>     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? 

Don't try it.  You should NEVER, EVER, mix parts of the OS between
different
versions of system software.  In fact, there were small changes in the
interface between the OS and FST's going from 5.0.4 to 6.0 which might make
the HFS FST work wrong under 5.0.4.

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Mark Day, Apple Computer, Inc.
mday@apple.com