Re: Utility to write DOS 3.3 disks under GS/OS?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 26 May 2004 08:24:23 -0400, dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)
wrote:

>As I recall, the basic problem is that Apple never provided the
>documentation necessary for writing an FST, so no one has been able to
>finish the DOS 3.3 FST.

Some have speculated, and it makes some sense to me as well, that
Apple made the DOS 3.3, Pascal and MS-DOS FSTs read only because there
was no way to support extended files (files with resource forks) on
those file systems.  At least, there isn't an easy way to do so.
Apple did create the AppleSingle and AppleDouble file formats a long
time ago to address this problem so the FSTs could have been written
to read and write extended files to operating systems that don't
support extended files by using one of those formats.

However, it would have been more work which, at the time, I'm sure
Apple wasn't willing to pay for.

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