Re: GS/OS: looking for info on VCB and FCB

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> magnusfalkirk wrote:
>> I have a copy of an shk file called MSDOS Tools for the Apple IIGS.
>> Here's the first line of the Read Me file that is part of the shk file
>> and can be read after you've expanded it.
>
> Are those the MUG tools that Peter Watson (earlier in this thread)
> wrote?

Almost certainly.

Just to clear up a small point. My original "command line-only" tools for 
reading/writing MS-DOS disks were called the "MSDOS Utilities". When I 
created MUG! (MSDOS Utilities Graphic !nterface) it was based on the MSDOS 
Utilities.

Many people referred to the original MSDOS Utilities as the MSDOS Tools. 
Originally I didn't correct this as I thought it was just people 
misremembering the name. But it turns out that in a case of eerily similar 
parallel development, there was a set of command line utilities written for 
Linux called the "MSDOS Tools". When people referred to a GS port of the 
MSDOS Tools, they thought I'd ported the Linux code! In reality, I didn't 
even know about the Linux utilities!
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)