Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!ultb!lmb7421 From: lmb7421@ultb.UUCP (L.M. Barstow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Storage Size Limits for Apple OS's Message-ID: <1146@ultb.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 02:24:58 GMT References: <8908121404.AA19486@trout.nosc.mil> Reply-To: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu.UUCP (L.M. Barstow) Organization: Wandering Damage, Cosmo Police, Psi division Lines: 33 In article <8908121404.AA19486@trout.nosc.mil> samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis) writes: >Comment to message from: rochester!rit!ultb!lmb7421@rutgers.edu (L.M. Barstow) = =Les Barstow writes: = => Now for a question: Is there any reason why a hard drive couldn't be => formatted in High Sierra/ISO 9660 format from GS/OS? Does the code to => write to a disk exist? Or is High Sierra for the GS limited to CD-ROM => only? = =Even if the write capability would be available for the HS format, would you =really want to convert a disk to that format? If you would convert a hard =disk to HS format, then you could only access the disk from GSOS. All of your =ProDOS 8 and earlier ProDOS 16 applications would be locked out from your hard =disk. Sounds a little less than useful to me. = If the write-capability was available, I would probably switch just about everything I *own* over to HS format. A lot of the programs I use now are not ProDOS-8 dependent. Loss of some of my disk-space in exchange for more flexability in filenames, etc...would definitely be a step up in some cases. I feel very restricted by the 15-character, upper-case-and-numbers-only format of ProDOS. When someone asked a while back about a GS/OS-specific file system, I was all for it for the same reasons. What I'm looking for is a file system which frees me from some of the constraints of ProDOS, and allows me to do more. I don't even care if it's DOS 3.3 updated to handle subdirectories and a larger disksize. I just want something which gives me freedom. -- Les Barstow |Bitnet: LMB7421@RITVAX "What about the R.O.U.S's?" |UUCP: ...rutgers!rochester!ritcv!ultb!lmb7421 "The Rodents Of Unusual Size? |ARPA: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu I don't believe they exist!" - Buttercup and Wesley, _The Princess Bride_