Re: You CAN copy Mac disks on a IIgs

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com>]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:54:03 -0400, "Bill Garber"
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

>"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
>20030906134339.18457.00000435@mb-m13.aol.com">news:20030906134339.18457.00000435@mb-m13.aol.com...
>>
>> HFS is one of the two fully supported file systems
>> on the IIGS.  ISO9660 (a CD file system) and the
>> MS-DOS file system are read-only supported.
>
>MS-DOS is fully read/write also with Peter Watson's
>MSDOS Utilities or MUG! and a superdrive package.

Well, not quite.  What Supertimer was saying is that HFS is fully
supported in a way that is totally transparent to the user.  I can run
IIgs applications and open files from IIgs applications off of either
ProDOS or HFS disks and practically the only way I could tell the
difference is if the filename contained more than 15 characters or had
characters that were illegal for ProDOS filenames.  :-)

MUG! is to GS/OS on the IIgs as HFSLink and A2FX are to ProDOS on all
Apple IIs.  They are utilities that let you transfer files back and
forth between disk formats but they are not extensions to the
operating system that give you transparent use of those disk formats
like GS/OS' ProDOS and HFS FSTs do.

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