Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!bionet!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb.ucdavis.edu!ecs175f037 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? Message-ID: <3364@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 03:03:08 GMT References: <3102@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <21758@apple.Apple.COM> <21815@apple.Apple.COM> <4774@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: lgdemichillie@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie) Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 25 >>>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)? ----- Greg DeMichillie Apple Student Rep - UC Davis INTERNET: lgdemichillie@ucdavis.edu UUCP : {...} ucbvax!ucdavis!lgdemichillie BITNET : lgdemichillie@ucdavis.BITNET AppleLink: ST0178 Disclaimer: If you've seen one disclaimer, you've seen them all.