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From: ecs175f037@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager...what the @*%$#! is it?
Summary: Okay, now that we know about HFS... how does DM work?
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Date: 8 Dec 88 03:03:08 GMT
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>>>Floppies use MFS, not HFS, so the Desktop Manager isn't relevant.
>>
>>Oops.  400K floppies use MFS.  800K and 1440K floppies use HFS.
>
>Sorry, but that is still not correct.  400K floppies may be initialized to use
>the heirarchical filing system (HFS).

>>--Brian Bechtel	blob@apple.com		"Still my opinions, not Apple's"

>	jmwheele@phoenix.princeton.edu					       <

Okay, so now we know that floppies DO use HFS... what about the original
question.

How does the desktop manager interact with floppies (MFS, HFS or any-other-FS)?

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